By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
At bustling intersections where fast-walking, rapid-texting New Yorkers come together with cars, cabs, carriage horses and daredevil bicycle messengers, the city is trying to slip in an emphatic message: LOOK!
Political scientist Patrick Egan has pointed out that murder rates have dropped to levels last seen during the Kennedy administration.
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"It won't make any difference to me," Patrick Egan, 58, said after stepping over a "LOOK!" sign at Second Avenue and 42nd Street, an intersection where 75 pedestrians were injured from 2006 to 2010.
