Needless, Heated Rhetoric Ensures N.Y. Subway Crime Escalates

In the wake of Daniel Penny’s not guilty verdict, which a Manhattan jury reached on Dec. 9, 2024, New Yorkers relying on the subway can relate, experiencing what’s now dispiritingly called “The Daniel Penny Effect.”

In May 2023, Penny, now 26, was arrested and charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide for having defended himself and other subway passengers against Jordan Neely, a homeless drug addict with 42 prior arrests — inclusive of three for subway assaults.

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