On the same day that a woman was set afire and burned to death on a NYC subway, Kathy Hochul posted selfies of herself on the subway and crowed about how "safe" it was.

She avoided photographing her armed Praetorian surrounding her.

Since the proclamation that the subways are "safe," a -- get this -- deranged homeless man with a mile-long rap sheet pushed a man on to the tracks of an approaching train (content advisory).

And then, get this, a very smug Young Scholar slashed the throat of a subway rider.

And that's not all:

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Kathy Hochul told us just last week that the subway is safe. Since then:

Woman burned alive
Man shoved into oncoming train
Man slashed in the neck
TdA [Tren de Aragua prison] gangs robbed riders
Woman stabbed in throat

Kathy Hochul needs to resign.

Leftists know their policies will result in more victims, and they don't care

Five straight days of attacks in the subway: Welcome to the world progressives knowingly created.

From Sunday night's knifing in an L station to Thursday morning's stabbing of an off-duty MTA worker on a Bronx platform, the violence follows the horrific pre-Christmas arson murder of Debrina Kawam and includes Tuesday's miraculously non-fatal shoving onto tracks in Manhattan.

And the hell-ification of the underground is a predictable consequence of "social justice" policies.

Take Kamel Hawkins, 23 and charged with second-degree assault and attempted murder for allegedly shoving that unsuspecting stranger in front of an incoming 1 train.

No surprise: His long rap sheet includes a 2019 attack on a police officer, plus an assault, harassment and weapons possession charge from October and a 2020 case where the judge released him without bail despite prosecutors asking for remand.

Keep letting violent perps walk free, and the violence grows -- but progs insist going easy on criminals matters more than preventing innocent people from being killed or maimed.

They've told us this.

Way back in 2007, Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm, one of the first wave of radical "reform" prosecutors, laid it out: "Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into a treatment program, who's going to go out and kill somebody? You bet. Guaranteed. It's guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach."

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and the state legislators behind New York's "criminal justice reforms" might not be as frank about it, but they make the same calculation.

As do those who proclaim the moral urgency of letting the dangerously mental ill roam free and untreated, or allowing millions of unvetted illegal migrants -- rapists, murders and gangbangers among them -- to cross the border.

"Enforcing the law" is an inherently evil, white supremacist project that must be eradicated; the people who get robbed, raped or murdered along the way are collateral damage.

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And the whole sad wave of underground violence is a predictable -- indeed, predicted -- result of the progressive refusal to fight farebeating, the "gateway drug" of subway crime.

The needless, bloody chaos won't stop until this poisonous ideology is rejected at every level of government.

Not even leftwing lunatics will accept this level of public disorder, mayhem, and slaughter.

So Kathy Hochul is pretending to care for the moment, saying she'll take a look at laws which make it nearly impossible to involuntarily commit a dangerous lunatic to the mental asylum.

She's triangulating against the NY Assembly, blaming them for the state of chaos:

Gov. Kathy Hochul says the recent surge in violence in the subway "cannot continue."

This week alone, a man survived being shoved onto the tracks and fracturing his skull. The new year also started with three subway stabbings in two days. One of the victims was an MTA employee.

Late last month, Debrina Kawam was set on fire and killed on a train in Coney Island.

"Many of these horrific incidents have involved people with serious untreated mental illness, the result of a failure to get treatment to people who are living on the streets and are disconnected from our mental health care system. We have a duty to protect the public from random acts of violence, and the only fair and compassionate thing to do is to get our fellow New Yorkers the help they need," Hochul said in a statement.

She says people on the streets with untreated mental illness "is an issue that has plagued New York for decades."

She says she will include new legislation in the executive budget to change New York's involuntary commitment standards.

"Currently hospitals are able to commit individuals whose mental illness puts themselves or others at risk of serious harm, and this legislation will expand that definition to ensure more people receive the care they need," Hochul said in a statement. "I will also introduce companion legislation to change Kendra's Law, improving the process through which a court can order certain individuals to participate in Assisted Outpatient Treatment while also making it easier for individuals to voluntarily sign up for this treatment. I've been pushing these changes for the past three years -- the time for legislative action is now."

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The New York Civil Liberties Union said that while Hochul is correct that the status quo regarding mentally ill homeless people is "untenable," the solution she's seeking isn't the right one.

"The change we need is not simply to lock more people away, especially those who pose no immediate threat to themselves or others. That doesn't make us safer, it distracts us from addressing the roots of our problems, and it threatens New Yorkers' rights and liberties," NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman said.

Note the below incident -- which is horrifying, discretion advised -- was supposedly not an act of terror. Rather, supposedly, the driver was 69 years old and became "confused" while driving.

But this sort of thing doesn't get stopped when crime is rampant. If NYC weren't an ultraviolent zoo this side of A Clockwork Orange, cops might have stopped this guy from driving earlier.

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