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The Subway Is Packed With Perverts
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Jaya Saxena
Published Apr 11, 2011
Modified Apr 11, 2011
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Have you been sexually assaulted on the subway? Join the club. Though the NYPD says there are about 600 reported incidents of sexual assault on the subway a year, they estimate that the real number is in the thousands. NYPD Transit Bureau Chief James Hall told the Daily News, "In my mind, it's the No. 1 quality-of-life offense on the subway." Where does nail-clipping rank?
The size of the NYPD force out looking for subway harassers has shrunk due to budget cuts, so unless victims report the crimes it's unlikely the pervs will get caught. And according to Emily May of Hollaback! that doesn't happen as often as it should. "Oftentimes when people are being harassed, they're scared, they're not thinking, 'Let me find a police officer,'" she said. "They're thinking, 'Let me get out of this situation.'" Clearly, the victims don't understand that it's their fault.
NYPD statistics [pdf] show that so far this year they've made 714 misdemeanor sex crime arrests, though it doesn't specify how many were in the subways. So beware that offenders are lurking, and whenever possible put that shit on YouTube, yo.
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