As we approach 2020, disaster looms over public safety in New York. A surge in violent crimes has shocked the public, from the midnight slaughter of four street sleepers by a mentally ill homeless drug addict; to the late-afternoon murder of a Barnard student, apparently by three young teenagers; to a spate of anti-Semitic attacks, climaxing in the Harlem arrest of a man who chopped his way with a machete into the upstate home of a Monsey rabbi celebrating the penultimate night of Hanukkah.
Grafton Thomas, perpetrator of the Monsey attack, fled to New York City and was almost immediately apprehended. His car's license plate number had been reported and, after he crossed the George Washington Bridge, the NYPD's automated “license-plate reader” system registered his presence. He was arrested within 15 minutes of entering the city.
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