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Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Jan 5 04:18:38 2025

Arresting someone 88 times is not handling crime - you may as well be giving him a medal of freedom at that point as that is about as much as a deterrent.
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A knife-wielding maniac with a history of mental illness and 87 prior arrests is wanted in connection with at least two stabbings in the subway this week, The Post has learned.

Cops searching for Jamar Banks were warned to use “extreme caution” when encountering him because he is believed to be armed with “a large knife,” according to a message sent to police officers and obtained by The Post.

Banks, 52, is known to frequent the No. 2 and No. 5 subway lines, authorities said in the message.

A surveillance photo allegedly shows Banks holding the knife in gloved hands.

“He has a very very lengthy arrest history,” a police source said. “It looks like he rides the rails back and forth.”

Banks is wanted for allegedly approaching a 31-year-old man from behind on a 2 train at 14th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan on Wednesday and starting an argument, before stabbing him in the back and running away.

He’s also suspected of knifing an off-duty MTA cleaner in the back and armpit around 6 a.m. Thursday, after starting an argument with the victim on a northbound 6 train platform at the Pelham Bay station in the Bronx, police said.

Banks’ rap sheet includes arrests for charges including attempted murder, weapons possession, assault, criminal trespassing, turnstile jumping and petty larceny, police sources said.

Banks allegedly stabbed a man in the leg with a kitchen knife on a Manhattan subway around 11 p.m. on Oct. 19, 2022, cops said.

The 26-year-old victim told police he boarded the northbound No. 2 train at Fulton Street and that his attacker got on at 72nd Street and attempted to sit on his girlfriend’s lap, police said.

When the victim asked Banks to step back, Banks allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the lower left leg.

In June 2015, Banks was accused of bursting out of a McDonald’s bathroom at 14th Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan and stabbing a man who had knocked on the door to see if the facility was occupied, the police sources said.

In June 1997, Banks was charged with attempted murder after a man bumped into him, allegedly prompting Banks to shoot the man in the leg, the sources said.

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Lesson here is, don't bump into people. Let him molest your wife,girlfriend, daughter.

https://nypost.com/2025/01/04/us-news/knife-wielding-man-on-the-loose-in-nyc-after-subway-stabbings-nypd/

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move

Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Jan 5 09:19:28 2025, in response to Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Jan 5 04:18:38 2025.

Bring back police shootings.

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings — a controversal move

Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Jan 5 13:23:24 2025, in response to Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Jan 5 04:18:38 2025.

Bernie Goetz deserves reparations.

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move

Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sun Jan 5 13:35:12 2025, in response to Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Jan 5 09:19:28 2025.

Just let them do their job!

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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Jan 5 18:17:57 2025, in response to Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move, posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sun Jan 5 13:35:12 2025.

88 times is someone doing their jobs. But it's a pointless make work job obviously as arrests don't mean anything.

And no one gets caught 100% of the time right? So how many more is fun times has the guy done?

Sounds like decriminalization if you are allowed to keep on keeping on.

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Sun Jan 5 19:41:46 2025, in response to Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Jan 5 04:18:38 2025.

Just shoot him and be done with it.

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move

Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Sun Jan 5 20:40:43 2025, in response to Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Jan 5 04:18:38 2025.

Gov. Hochul and MTA Chairman Jano Lieber have come up with a solution:

He will be banned from all MTA facilities.

Take that, tuff guy.

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move

Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Sun Jan 5 21:09:27 2025, in response to Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Sun Jan 5 20:40:43 2025.

Cue up Steve Allen laughing uncontrollably.

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings — a controversal move

Posted by randyo on Mon Jan 6 02:35:17 2025, in response to Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings — a controversal move, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Jan 5 13:23:24 2025.

I have always felt that if Bernie Goetz had not come forward and admitted what he did, to this day we would not know who did the shooting.

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move

Posted by randyo on Mon Jan 6 03:00:06 2025, in response to Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Sun Jan 5 20:40:43 2025.

And considering the lack of station agents at many locations, just how do the powers that be intend to enforce such a ban? Even on buses what are the odds that a bus operator would recognize him especially on lines with POP that allow rear entrance?

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings — a controversal move

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Mon Jan 6 05:22:59 2025, in response to Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings — a controversal move, posted by randyo on Mon Jan 6 02:35:17 2025.

He told his neighbor. If he just shut his mouth, he wouldn't have got caught.

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Jan 6 06:46:03 2025, in response to Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move, posted by randyo on Mon Jan 6 03:00:06 2025.

Considering that if you bump into the guy in an empty city like ny he'll stab you, what does the bus driver do when he recognizes him?

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move

Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Jan 6 07:40:11 2025, in response to Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move, posted by BILLBKLYN on Sun Jan 5 19:41:46 2025.

Thank you.

This isn't complicated, people.

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Jan 6 08:35:14 2025, in response to Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Jan 6 07:40:11 2025.

You're wrong. It's like the PLO and Gaza. It's very complex and nuanced.

If anyone is idoitic enough to think there is no overlap in the stupidity, let me correct you right now.

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move

Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Jan 6 09:55:48 2025, in response to Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Jan 6 08:35:14 2025.

I feel unsafe now. Please respect my truth.

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move

Posted by Train Dude on Mon Jan 6 10:54:05 2025, in response to Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Jan 5 04:18:38 2025.

Currently under arrest for 2 stabbings within 24 hours. Alvin Scum-bragg is considering whether to charge him

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings — a controversal move

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jan 6 10:58:42 2025, in response to Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings — a controversal move, posted by BILLBKLYN on Mon Jan 6 05:22:59 2025.

Got caught doing what?

Sad state of affairs when you "get caught" defending yourself.

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings — a controversal move

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Mon Jan 6 12:20:58 2025, in response to Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings — a controversal move, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jan 6 10:58:42 2025.

Meaning by the police.

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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Jan 6 12:24:41 2025, in response to Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move, posted by Train Dude on Mon Jan 6 10:54:05 2025.

Thank you for the follow-up. Curious to see what happens. Walk free, or do you have to get massive public outrage to actually be held? Without the article and outrage, he would be free for #89

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move

Posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Jan 6 13:33:42 2025, in response to Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Jan 5 04:18:38 2025.

What a pussy
Put down the knife and put up your dukes

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move

Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Jan 6 15:00:48 2025, in response to Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move, posted by Train Dude on Mon Jan 6 10:54:05 2025.

Bragging is merely a symptom of the bigger problem.

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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Jan 6 15:00:57 2025, in response to Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move, posted by Train Dude on Mon Jan 6 10:54:05 2025.

Bragg is merely a symptom of the bigger problem.

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move

Posted by randyo on Mon Jan 6 16:42:29 2025, in response to Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings - a controversal move, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Jan 6 06:46:03 2025.

Notify bus command center via radio and/or activate the bus’s emergency alarm signage.

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Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings — a controversal move

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jan 6 21:17:22 2025, in response to Re: Decriminalizing subway stabbings — a controversal move, posted by BILLBKLYN on Mon Jan 6 12:20:58 2025.

Why should he have feared such a thing?

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