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I always feel a little out of place posting about crime here on LinkedIn, but people seem interested, plus this is about crime on the *subway*, which is how I and many of you get to work most days. There was a tiff last week in Washington between Security of Transportation Sean Duffy and my Congressman, Jerry Nadler, in which Nadler said major crime was down on the subway, Duffy said assaults were up, then they called each other liars. Both were in fact telling the truth, and I have a new column (with a gift link that should work for the rest of the week) exploring the not entirely reassuring numbers on subway crime in New York. https://lnkd.in/eVs2C6_t Still, it's important to put the risks faced by subway riders in context, so I also compared the chances of being murdered in the subway if you rode it 500 times last year with the odds of dying from some other causes in other places. The results are striking. (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Duffy grew up, and its average annual mortality rate from traffic accidents over the past seven years is actually on the low side for rural America).