Readers sound off on crime statistics, the Midtown shooting and mail-in voting

Readers sound off on crime statistics, the Midtown shooting and mail-in voting

Horror stories don’t raise subway crime rates Manhattan: Marc Molinaro’s op-ed (“Crime in the subway is real by any name,” July 25) is fear-mongering. He claims to like statistics, and he plays with percentages to show a “dangerous and growing surge” in violence. What he omits is the number of rides MTA customers take in the subway, and it’s close to 4 million trips daily. Multiply that by a year. Be super conservative and estimate 700 million s…