Top Cop to NY: Wake Up! NY’s Reply: You First!
Shouldn’t the police be arresting more criminals instead of waking up dozing straphangers whose eyes might close a few minutes on the way home from work — if they’re actually lucky enough to get a seat (“Wake Up!!!” Feb. 4)?
If you publicly urinate, drink beer and jump a turnstile — no problem. Of course, subway crime is going to increase.
Let’s start with arresting criminals and respecting hardworking taxpayers’ need for safe, clean transportation instead of waking up people catching a quick nap on the train.
Carol Meltzer
Manhattan
Let me get this straight: Hardworking New Yorkers, some of whom have to work two jobs or even three in order to make ends meet, snatch a snooze on the subway while commuting.
Then suddenly, they are shaken awake by a police officer because it has now been decided by our police commissioner and mayor that if you “snooze, you may lose.”
In other words, you might lose your property, your good looks because of a slashing or maybe even your life.
Now I have to think twice before I take a subway. I have to wonder: Will I be a target for a slasher or an otherwise unbalanced copycat psychotic homeless person unwilling or unable to seek treatment in our failed systems?
Harriet Forman
Manhattan
Is Commissioner Bill Bratton losing his mind? His idea of waking up subway riders to avoid crime is insane.
Unlike Bratton, who is chauffeured everywhere, people actually work hard all day and need a little shuteye on their long rides home.
Maybe Bratton could use the sleep himself, because the stuff that comes out of his mouth doesn’t make much sense.
Chris Bisignano
Staten Island