Penn Station slash spree: Letters to the Editor — June 11, 2026

The suspect stabbed five people in Penn Station before being apprehended by law enforcement. @bjntweets/X

The Issue: A homeless man with multiple priors who is accused of slashing five people in Penn Station.

I want to commend The Post for covering the knife attack at Penn Station (“Penn: Demand Better,” Editorial, June 9).

I can only wonder how much more damage could have been done if that maniac had a gun instead of a knife. I can’t help wondering why so many people, including Mayor Mamdani, cling to their “defund the police” insanity, and why they also oppose proactive police policies like “stop and frisk.”

Incidents like the Penn Station attack and other recent attacks on police officers and the elderly prove that we need a lot more police officers — and we also need to support them as much as we can.

John Francis Fox

Sunnyside

The Penn Station slashing should qualify for a cause of action against all the agencies charged with the protection of transit passengers.

For far too long have indigent and emotionally disturbed people been the subject of benign neglect by agencies responsible for the safety of commuters. They have historically been protected by law to loiter with no purpose in public venues.

This qualifies for the famous Dickens idiom that says “the law is an ass.” It is time for a change.

Phil Serpico

Queens

New York has succeeded in getting a lot of guns off the streets, but now all I read about are stabbings. Are the politicians coming after our knives next? Where does it all end?

There’s only one solution: Get the miscreants off our streets, lock them up, throw away the keys and let law-abiding citizens live our lives. Also stop demonizing law enforcement and voting for soft-on-crime politicians or it will just keep getting worse.

Marion Friedman

The Bronx

It’s time to stop using the term “emotionally disturbed person.” The person who stabbed five people in Penn Station isn’t emotionally disturbed — he’s criminally insane. Criminally insane people belong in insane asylums.

Don’t confuse any of this with being crazy. The definition of crazy is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result — that’s what the politicians are.

Peter Goldring

Freehold, NJ

Society can no longer stand this. The subways are no longer safe for citizens. It’s up to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to tell Mamdami to take his cameras and stick it.

Send police squads down into the subways, hunt these animals and finish the job. No more District Attorney Alvin Bragg or liberal judges.

Bill Verderose

Brooklyn

Gov. Hochul’s 2022 Concealed Carry Improvement Act made it a crime for citizens with pistol permits to carry weapons in most public places. By doing so, she turned those public places into kill zones where only criminals carry weapons. The results are predictable.

Criminals know their victims will be unarmed. Efforts to reduce the number of weapons on the street during the past two administrations have been directed solely at law-abiding citizens. Good job, governor.

Robert Mangi

Garden City

Another stabbing, only the names and faces have changed. This time it’s Penn Station. The common denominators are the deranged homeless individuals and a revolving-door judicial system. What does it take for politicians to affect real change?

This should be a wake-up call for our political elite. This isn’t a party issue; it’s about a society which is failing to protect its citizens by cleaning up the streets. It’s time to make this investment. Patchwork repairs dealing with the homeless population are not working.

Ronald Frank

West Orange, NJ

A homeless and mentally ill man stabbed five innocents in a knife attack in Penn Station. This is appalling, and this egregious and nefarious act should never have happened.

Mayor Mamdani should do more to protect citizens in New York City. The NYPD should be alert when it comes to the mentally ill and homeless people hanging out on our city streets. If not, may God protect us all because the mayor will not.

Frederick Bedell Jr.

Bellerose

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