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

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 FoxSunnysideThe 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 SerpicoQueensNew 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 FriedmanThe BronxIt’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 polit...