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The number of people caught with illegal knives in the NYC subway system has skyrocketed by 60%.

New York City subways continue to grow unsafe as knife arrests soared by 60 percent amidst ongoing violent crime surge.

If you need more evidence that charging Daniel Penny with manslaughter won’t make a difference to our three-year-old subway-crime crisis, look no further than the same day’s news: another slaying on the train, the fifth this year and the third with the alleged killer claiming self-defense.

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A Brooklyn grand jury dismissed the case against Mark Smith, who was charged with manslaughter in the April 6 subway stabbing death of teen Isaiah Collazo, finding Smith acted in self-defense.

“He’s getting away with murder,” the teen victim’s outraged mother Iveless Martinez, 40, told the Daily News after learning of the dropped charges.

Before Neely’s death, from March 2020 until early April, 27 people lost their lives to murder in the subway, many of them, like Neely, were homeless young people.

“I am a good person,” Mark Smith said in an exclusive interview after being charged with manslaughter. “Everybody in my life, everybody that knows me, knows that. I don’t want people to go around and think I’m a killer."

The suspect – whose name has not been released because he is a minor – was arrested Friday after he was released from Jacobi Medical Center, where he was treated for a gunshot wound to the hip from the April 10 shooting at the Burke Avenue Nos. 2 and 5 station, cops said.

It appears gang tensions sparked the wild April 10 clash inside the Burke Ave. station, police said.