Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site enmasse.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!teddy!panda!enmasse!mroddy From: mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy) Newsgroups: net.legal,net.politics Subject: Re: Re: NYC subway hero Message-ID: <273@enmasse.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 09:35:09 EST Article-I.D.: enmasse.273 Posted: Wed Jan 9 09:35:09 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 23:24:23 EST References: <4850@utzoo.UUCP>, <242@looking.UUCP> <568@tty3b.UUCP> <189@mhuxr.UUCP> Organization: Enmasse Computer Corp., Acton, Mass. Lines: 11 Xref: watmath net.legal:1267 net.politics:6707 > various opinions about "subway hero" It would have been nice if the event had been more clean-cut. What most people who have never lived in NYC don't unsderstand is that there aren't any police around to use force appropriately. Everyone I know who lives or lived in the city has had their mugging experience, and the follow-up encounter with the police: victim: officer, I've been mugged! officer: so what?