With Saturday’s mid-day homicide in the tourist-packed seventh Avenue subway station at 53rd Street, the metropolis has now seen seven transit killings since January — nearly double the quantity over the same interval last 12 months — and the politicians plainly won’t do what’s wanted to critically reverse the development.

That grim milestone indicts Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his motion’s anti-public-safety insurance policies — as he all but acknowledged Monday with a lengthy, ugly silence before claiming to be “heartbroken” over the loss of life of Darrel Rodriguez and obscure noises about addressing gun violence. 

Progressives have been on a “criminal justice reform’ roll for over a decade now — starting with the disastrous “success” of getting metropolis district attorneys to give up prosecuting fare-beating, even though such perps are commonly needed for more critical offenses.

The state and metropolis measures that adopted — from Raise the Age and the no-bail regulation to How Many Stops — alongside with the regular shrinkage of the NYPD’s headcount have made it brutally powerful for cops to struggle crime.

And prog refusal to face details about critical psychological sickness, particularly among the homeless, further undermines public security.

And so repeat offenders’ arrests for felony assault more than doubled from 2018 to 2026 over 2018. 

Rhammell Burke, who allegedly murdered Ross Falzone at the 18th Street station in May, is a traditional instance: In the 4 earlier months, he’d been arrested 4 occasions, including for another violent subway meltdown — and mere hours before the killing had been let go from Bellevue after getting picked up for erratic habits. 

Starting in 2020, the subway system has averaged eight murders a 12 months — when from 1997 to 2019, it averaged just two.

Yes, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch has labored miracles, reaching (most notably) an all-time general homicide low this 12 months.

That transit killings are going the other method is a signal of critical bother that the NYPD can’t readily counter. 

Mamdani’s far-left buddies are already livid that he’s saved Tisch in place, but he’s also gone back on his plan to add 500 cops and continued to undermine cop morale.

Don’t expect the subway to get safer unless he opts to really break with the left and put public security first.