Every New Yorker who rides the subway knows that this happens every day now. Every time you take the train, you see someone homeless, on drugs, mentally ill, or violent. Every time. This has become our new normal. And hardworking, taxpaying, innocent New Yorkers have resigned to this. Because nobody does anything, they think nothing can be done.
The truth is— it doesn’t have to be this way.
We need to enforce the law, prosecute transit crime, and restore consequences for criminal behavior. It wasn’t this way before 2019. It’s this way now because in 2019 and 2020 we got weak prosecutors and weak laws that prioritize criminals over the rest of us. And we are left with lawlessness and disorder.
But New Yorkers are tired of it. They want someone to prosecute crime again. They want someone to take the repeat offenders and put them in jail. They want someone to take people like this out of the transit system. They want someone to clean up the streets and the subways.
I am that someone.
When I’m Attorney General, I will put an end to the lawlessness on the subways.
In a chilling video from a New York City subway train, one passenger confronts another, demanding he turn off his speaker. Rather than comply, the man responds by rapping graphic threats of extreme violence—including a vow to slice the passenger’s face open with a knife—while acting in an openly aggressive and threatening manner.
Shockingly, no police officers were present to intervene. Yet Governor Hochul and Mayor Mamdani have remained silent and taken no action to address the escalating disorder in our transit system.
This cannot continue. New Yorkers deserve the truth, and they deserve safety. It is long past time for real leadership and meaningful change on our subways.