If you need more evidence that charging Daniel Penny with manslaughter won’t make a difference to our three-year-old subway-crime crisis, look no further than the same day’s news: another slaying on the train, the fifth this year and the third with the alleged killer claiming self-defense.
A Brooklyn grand jury dismissed the case against Mark Smith, who was charged with manslaughter in the April 6 subway stabbing death of teen Isaiah Collazo, finding Smith acted in self-defense.