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Based on this chart, staying in the subway is safer than going up into the city.
The children yearn for the mines
Your boyfriend probably wont kill you in front of witnesses on the subway. He might if he catches you with someone else in his bed.
Much more likely the murder was something else. Out of the 387 murders in NYC in 2024, 312 of them were men.
So that's about 4 out of 5 murders being men/boys
Women are a lot more likely to be murdered than men by their domestic partner, but men are far more likely to be murdered on the street.
Your boyfriend probably wont kill you in front of witnesses on the subway. He might ~~if he catches you with someone else in his bed.~~ in the privacy of your home.
I mean, yeah. I have never once worried about my physical safety on a NYC subway.
It is more not wanting to smell all the horrific things coming out of people's orifices, getting mugged, or having to hop out and wait for the next train to avoid someone having a breakdown because mental health isn't a thing in this country. I still love taking the train but if someone is willing to risk their car in traffic... I'll passenger princess that shit.
"Getting mugged" doesn't count as worry to your physical safety?
Someone rips the phone out of my hand? Monetarily and socially that sucks but I can also protect myself by pocketing my phone any time we are near a stop where the doors open.
Someone says "gimme your wallet"? I'm old school. That is why you always carry 40-100 bucks in cash (I like a money clip) and just give them that. The vast majority of muggers are doing it to survive and understand that credit cards get cancelled immediately and cell phones are just a tracking beacon that needs to be fenced. And they don't want to steal your IDs and make your life hell. Give them cash without complaint and they move on.
Ah, street smarts
See, I'm so white and nerdy that I'm nearly allergic to the sun
Of course it is?
Yeah. The objection to "crime" is mostly a socially acceptable way of saying that somebody doesn't want to have to be around folks with darker skin than their own, or who might be poorer than they are
“Homicide, US, 5.9” yikes… and that’s just the national average… I think MS and several other states are much higher
I would sorta like to know homicide from like car jacking and such as I would not be surprised if it competed with it but then again that 500 ride thing. Anyway I agreed that just because something is rare does not mean you don't try to make it more rare. 500 rides though thats like a year when you are riding twice a day weekdays. Likely less but lets say a year. So over 10 years 4 percent and over a lifetime figure 40 years of working is 16 percent and then we will throw in the 4 percent for riding while younger or older than daily commute. Boy that starts not looking so good. Maybe im not using the statistic properly but that is what it sounds like to me.
.4 per 100,000 over 10 years is not 4%. It's less than 1/1000 of a percent
sorry. I thought it was saying .4%, thanks for correcting me.