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Some people are looking at the gruesome footage of a woman burning to death after an illegal alien set her on fire on the New York City subway and don’t understand why the police seemed to be doing nothing.
Video on social media appears to show some people looking on from the platform and at least one police officer walking by while the woman is on fire inside the train.
NYPD Transit Chief Joseph Gulotta said Sunday that several officers responded to the fire and one stayed to keep the crime scene “the way it’s supposed to be” while the others went to get fire extinguishers and transit workers.
“Officers who were on patrol on an upper level of that station smelled and saw smoke and went to investigate. What they saw was a person standing inside the train car fully engulfed in flames,” Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.
They eventually put the fire out, but “unfortunately, it was too late,” Tisch said, and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
We don’t know if she was still alive at the time that the video was shot, fire can do strange things to human bodies, but it doesn’t even matter. In the recent Daniel Penny case, also involving the city subway, it came out that first responders didn’t want to give Jordan Neely, the deranged violent criminal, mouth to mouth even though he seemed to have a pulse.
The short version is that the cops are not there to save you. It’s not even really their job.
Law enforcement officers putting themselves on the line were being heroic. After Ferguson, George Floyd and a decade of DEI hiring, the number of officers willing to do that has dropped significantly. Most police forces are doing their jobs which they define as punching the clock, carrying out specific orders and avoiding any political risks. Fewer officers today are military veterans, more have become the Europeanized bureaucrats we saw at Uvalde who ‘control scenes’ rather than take action.
COVID further worsened the situation so a whole lot of officers see their primary job as controlling the law-abiding public and avoiding confrontations with elements of the lawless public who are politically protected.
Back in 2013, I predicted what the takeover of New York City politics by DeBlasio and pro-crime pols would do. Not everything came true, but some things certainly did.
No more fascist cops hassling “innocent” people. Bill de Blasio won’t put up with any of that. De Blasio will put the cops in their place, inside a Dunkin Donuts and away from people. They’ll still get paid. They’re in a union. They just won’t lift a finger to help you because they’ll have more special monitors and civilian complaint review boards on their necks than they can handle.
And next time one of the innocent victims of Stop and Frisk is pounding your face into the sidewalk with one hand while digging through your pockets with the other, wave to the pair of beat cops sitting in the window of the coffee shop. And they’ll wave back without getting up. Because you voted for this. And you’re getting what you deserve.
When you recover from your medically induced coma, you’ll have a hell of a story to tell between reconstructive surgery visits. You might be tempted to complain about how the police don’t do anything anymore and how we pay them a ton of money and they don’t do anything except rope off a crime scene.
But don’t. You don’t want to sound like one of those crazy right winger types carrying guns on the 3 train waiting to go all Bernhard Goetz on some street kid. It’s De Blasio time. It’s what you voted for.
All those cops ruined the special spirit of the city. The one where you could see someone lying in a pool of their own blood on the A train on the way to work and you shrugged and moved on. The one where every weekend began with more bodies than an entire season of Law and Order.
The Village Voice fumed over the piece. But here we are. There’s bodies in the subway and the NYPD understands that its job is to keep the revolving door swinging, making arrests and then watching the skells walk away. Some will put themselves on the line for you, but don’t expect your average diversity hire who’s there to collect overtime to save you when you’re on fire. It’s not his job.
More cops won’t fix this. Different politicians will.
