This is why we can't have nice things.
At least, not in our major cities, thanks in this case to lax judges who keep letting habitual criminals back out on the street. In this case, in New York, the criminal, one Justine Randall-Pizarro, has been stealing subway trains - yes, really - and judges have, 12 times and counting, put her back on the street.
Judges let 18-year-old subway hijacker Justine Randall-Pizarro go, not once, not twice, but five times this calendar year in an apparent bid to show mercy.
But all they’ve really done is allow a clearly troubled teen to rack up a rap sheet of more than a dozen arrests this year, cause havoc on the transit network, inconvenience commuters and harass already overworked MTA employees.
Randall-Pizarro was busted for commandeering a locked N train at 4am in June, wearing a black hat and Crocs, then driving it one stop from the Broadway station in Astoria to 36th Avenue.
“I went to Broadway, and behold – there was a lay-up train there. Still on FaceTime with my homeboy, so I drove it while I was on FaceTime with him,” she told investigators. “And, I don’t know, we was just fooling around, turning up on FaceTime like while I was driving it.”
"Stealing a subway train" goes well beyond "fooling around." New York's judiciary, on the other hand, seems to have made foolery into a fine art.
That attitude in and of itself speaks volumes, for the contempt in which Pizarro holds the New York system of justice, and what reason has he not to? It's plainly been utterly ineffective in his case. Yes, "he." "Justine" Randall Parazzo is actually a dude.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told The Post Randall-Pizarro, who is transgender and listed on all paperwork as female, has been arrested twelve times… just in 2025. The Post was able to confirm 17 total arrests since September of 2024 when she turned 18.
“This person is basically a transit recidivist who keeps breaking into trains,” he said. “When she breaks into them, she moves them, she steals items – train keys, things of that nature.”
All these arrests appear to be in vain. Every time the police nab Randall-Pizarro, the justice system seems hellbent on letting her go with a slap on the wrist.
On June 23, she entered a train cabin and allegedly stole a female conductor’s bag. Prosecutors asked for $20,000 bail or a $60,000 bond, but a judge released her on her own recognizance.
On June 1, she supposedly took control of a different train in Brooklyn. For that, a $25,000 bail or $50,000 bond was requested. Yet again a judge set her loose on supervision.
On May 26, she was accused of pepper spraying an MTA worker in the face on board an R train. And yet again she was granted a supervised release, in spite of a request for bail.
There's more where that came from.
"Justine" Randall-Pizarro shouldn't be walking around. But it's been amply demonstrated that he can do as he likes, and the New York judges presiding over his cases will slap his wrist and turn him back out onto the streets again. And, we should note, Pizarro is just a symptom, a symptom of a disease that is pervasive in our major cities - bad judges. Bad, soft-on-crime judges.
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What's more, this isn't Randall-Pizarro's first time drawing attention in the media, either:
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said that Pizarro had been arrested 12 times in 2025 – most “related to transit incidents, whether it be burglary, reckless endangerment, train surfing or larceny from transit property.”
“This person is basically a transit recidivist who keeps breaking into trains,” the chief added. “When she breaks into them, she moves them, she steals items – train keys, things of that nature.”
New York needs to get better judges. Pizarro should be cooling his heels on Riker's Island, not wandering around out in public, stealing more trains, and committing who knows how many other crimes. There have to be consequences for these acts, consequences stringent enough to give criminals pause. When there are not, when the perps know there are not, this is precisely what you get.
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