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It\u2019s very rare that New York City newspapers can trumpet good news about crime in the city.\u00a0 But last week they could:<\/p>\n

\u201cMajor crimes in the subways, including robberies and felony assaults, declined 18 percent from Jan. 1 through March 31, to the second-lowest level in nearly three decades, police officials said at a news conference last week. There were no murders during the same period for the first time in seven years, the officials said.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this good news was nestled near the end of a crime story that was entitled:<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice Seek Man Who They Say Violated a Corpse on an R Train<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the non-New Yorker, the R Train (or RR as it used to be known in my day) is a local subway line that plies the underground between Brooklyn and Downtown Manhattan.\u00a0 The details were sparse but sufficient:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe police were searching on Thursday for a man investigators believed violated a dead man Wednesday night on a train in a Manhattan subway station, according to an internal police document.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The person who died boarded an R train at around 8 p.m., according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the matter and the internal document. It was unclear on Thursday when or how the person died.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A man entered the same train car at around 11 p.m. at the Whitehall Street-South Ferry station in the Financial District, according to the official.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Within 45 minutes, the man saw the dead man and began to rummage through his pockets, the official said. The man then began to have sex with the body, according to the official and the document.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The sexual acts were captured on surveillance cameras inside the train car, the official said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Soon after, the man got off the train and fled, the police said.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, at least it\u2019s good to know that the surveillance cameras were doing their job even if no one else was.\u00a0 So, a man can drop dead and be lying there for three hours in a subway train without anyone including the crew aware of the fact and in fact another patron can take the opportunity to bugger the departed at his leisure without fear of interruption.<\/p>\n

So, this 18% reduction in subway crime is being touted as a great success by the Mayor and the Police Commissioner\u2019s offices but the fact that corpses are being sodomized on the R Train is to be taken in stride.\u00a0 Call me a glass half empty kind of guy but somehow the 18% crime reduction rings a little hollow when necrophilia has surfaced in Gotham City.<\/p>\n

I used to live in New York City during the time when crime was considered at its worst.\u00a0 I can remember several gruesome murders and some aberrant behavior but I will say I\u2019ve never heard that anything like this ever happened on the subway.\u00a0 And the fact that the New York Times is trying to paint this \u201creduction in crime\u201d as a triumph in law enforcement can only be described as Kafkaesque.<\/p>\n

I like how the New York Times article describes the crime, \u201cPolice Seek Man Who They Say Violated a Corpse on an R Train.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cWho they say<\/strong>\u201d as if it\u2019s in dispute.\u00a0 What else could it be?\u00a0 Could he have had prior consent from the deceased in the event his corpse happened to be found on the train?<\/p>\n

I have friends and relatives who still live in the city.\u00a0 I can only assume it would be too expensive for them to relocate.\u00a0 Otherwise, I cannot imagine anyone who can get out, not doing so.\u00a0 The public schools have become a sad joke.\u00a0 The streets are covered with filth and the homeless and crime is at the point that you probably have to fear for your life on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

But up until now you never had to consider that after you were murdered your corpse might be sexually abused by your attacker.\u00a0 This does seem like an inflection point.\u00a0 Or am I being oversensitive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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