Don't Slash Me, Bro!
March 18, 2016
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as posted by the channelA rise in slashings on and near New York City subway platforms has brought the NYPD into the subway in force, and had residents asking why the random attacks are happening.
"It doesn't matter where you are," said Joe Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant who now teaches at John Jay College. "We've seen them in Brooklyn, we've seen them in Manhattan, we've seen them in Queens, we've seen them everywhere. And it's happening in the street, it's happening in the subways."
Law enforcement officials have said it's unclear whether the attacks - usually committed by different assailants randomly against strangers - are copycat crimes. Citywide, slashings are up 20 percent so far in 2016.
People in the city are all dealing with the slashing epidemic differently. Doug Smith, a comic who was slashed six years ago, turned his experience into a web series, "Doug Smith: Secret Weapon."
"What if there was like this blowhard, hyper-vigilant urban survivalist who's trying to educate New Yorkers on how to bop their way through the city?" Smith said is the premise for his show.
Smith recounts what happened to him when he stepped between a woman who was being assaulted and a man with a razor blade between his fingers in the series. But it also tackles lighter topics like how to get free cab rides, dealing with solicitors on the street shoving pamphlets your way, and assaulting people with hot pizza grease.
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