In a city with over 8 million people (plus millions more in the suburbs), you can expect a lot of…very human…interactions.
In small towns most things make sense. Smaller places aren’.
Working. gillian: howard, you mentioned the subway system is a soft target. we heard yesterday the commuters on the train were essentially sitting ducks during this attack. so far, right, we know that ten people were shot, five of them are now in critical condition. it seems like extraordinary good fortune nobody has died so far. very lucky. i ve always said that a shooting is a homicide with bad aim, and we are very fortunate that as i understand it, his gun jammed or he would have fired a lot more shots other than the 33 that he fired. but you know, you can t stop somebody unless you have the kind of precautions going after every fare jumper and making sure the surveillance systems work, a huge police presence, not only on the platforms but in the cars. that s what s going to prevent this. john: howard, let me come back to something you said a second ago, you when you were the police commissioner were a