No, more police won’t make New Yorkers – or anyone else – safer. It never does | Simon Balto

After the subway shooting last week, New York City mayor Eric Adams declared he will deploy more police to the subway. But that's the last thing that will help

Last week, as I sat at a desk in a hotel room in lower Manhattan where I was traveling for work, my phone buzzed. A friend who knew I was in New York had texted to ask if I was all right. Bewildered, I sent a question mark back in response, and turned to Twitter for real-time answers as to what was going on. And there was the news: a man had opened fire inside a subway car as it pulled into a station in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood, shooting what we'd eventually learn to be 10 people, and injuring more than a dozen others either with bullet grazes or smoke inhalation from smoke grenades he'd thrown. (Mercifully, no one was killed, and reports are that no one still hospitalized has life-threatening injuries.)

In the aftermath, the shooter vanished as if a ghost.