How Long Until NYC's Crime Surge Dents Eric Adams' Teflon?

The subway shooter had dominated the headlines. And with good reason. The particulars were vivid—a gas mask wearing gunman detonated two smoke canisters before opening fire with a Glock 9-millimeter handgun inside a Tuesday morning rush hour N train in Brooklyn—and the toll was grim—10 people were shot, and five of the gunshot victims were in critical condition (in total, 23 people were injured in the attack). Then the alleged perpetrator, Frank James, spent the next day roaming the city, evading a massive police search until being spotted by seemingly every resident of the East Village.

Meanwhile, bullets were flying over the rest of the city, part of a slow-motion tragedy that is the greater threat to New York’s security, both for its residents and for its economy. On Tuesday night, 15 people were shot, two of them fatally, during six bloody hours in the Bronx and Brooklyn. The first to be killed was an unidentified 22-year-old man. About an hour later, 23-year-old Sally Ntim was shot in the head while sitting alone in a parked car, apparently caught in a crossfire.

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