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Recent facts and events remind everyone about the flabbily overpaid ineffectiveness of NYC's police force. Traditionally, such facts were hidden from the public because NYC's media and newscasters were bribed or intimidated. Recently, social media acts like a whistleblower. However, today's item in the News made my coworkers gasp with disgust. In truth, it is a good thing that this subway entrance was reopened. Yet, it is deplorable that it was closed/disused for 30 years, merely because NYC's overpaid police "could not afford to patrol it".
Nothing reeks more of corrupted priorities than such an instance of (typical) uncaring. Three decades ago, the New York City Police Department--overpaid and larger than some nation's armies--complained that they couldn't patrol this subway entrance in the crime-ridden area of Bedford, Brooklyn. Since it seems to be NYPD's tactic to avoid improving crime-ridden areas, they naturally let that area degrade into bedlam. It is still an undesirable neighborhood within the most expensive city in the USA.
For 30 years, residents and commuters were forced to trek 1/4 mile to the next available subway entrance... because a perfectly-usable one was shuttered. (because the largest police force was afraid of it). Three decades of mayors, deputy mayors politicians, local assemblymen, police commissioners, MTA chiefs, and public advocates did nothing to rectify that. The Metropolitan Transit Authority's bus stop was (stupidly) not relocated, so commuters exited their buses and needed to hurry 1/4 mile to the next subway station... in a decrepit area in all types of miserable NYC weather. Nobody cared about those inconveniences for such a long time. That is how the notoriously corrupt MTA treats its paying customers. (That's also because the MTA chiefs do not use their own public transportation system).
Such impossible stupidity is commonplace here. Only COVID forced the tax-paid authorities to realize the importance of allowing access to the subway... and they expect everyone to forget about their long-lasting blunder. Most likely, the next wave of uneducated immigrants, human-trafficked laborers, and brainwashed youngsters from the Midwest will be duped. They will think that it indicates a "major transformation" of NYC.
