Don't Just Do Something, Stand There

Contrary to popular belief, NYC is not a particularly high-crime city. It's certainly no Memphis or St. Louis, and the borough of Manhattan in particular is actually unusually low-crime for its size. The majority of the crime that happens between the Hudson and East rivers is likely of the white collar variety; it's too expensive for normie criminals. The era of "The Bronx is burning" and Escape From New York is decades in the rearview mirror.

But low crime is not no crime, and a couple high profile incidents in the subways have caused the powers that be in New York to decide that Something Must Be Done... and that "something" is a doozy, let me tell you.

You can tell from the way the dude in the center is wearing his Safariland dropleg rig that we're not exactly dealing with operators here. I suppose it's too much to expect for them to at least be deploying MPs? There's a whole frickin' battalion of them based right there in the city, after all. Hopefully they're using those local dudes. I'd hate to picture SPC Jablonski, a 91B from Binghamton, getting excited and cutting loose with an M4 amongst the theater rush.