The hidden cost of crime in New York City

Why politicians getting lax about law & order on the subway is like Boeing getting lax about its jetliners.

Whenever the authorities in New York City ease up on law & order to be more progressive, and then crazymen start shoving commuters in front of subway trains, we are instructed that, actually, the statistical risk of being violently attacked while trapped underground with hundreds of strangers, some of whom are not right in the head, is still trivial.

But, what the data analysts overlook is that the worsened psychological burden imposed on the vast number of subway users and would-be subway users by less law & order is sizable.