Pepper spray is legal in NYC...just keep in mind that in an enclosed space like a subway car a lot of people will be affected with some residual irritant. So cover your face as best you can with a handkerchief and make sure your aim is true. I promise you that the pervert will be instantly incapacitated. After you spray him, kick him in the balls. If you spray his pecker his genitals will feel like they are on fire.

Ladies, instead of telling a cop, tell a civil male in the train car (or station). I'm sure he wouldn't mind going over to the perv and introducing his knee to the perv's crotch. Violence may not be the answer, but it sure does work sometimes.

Expecting a stranger who didn't see what happened to intervine after the fact is asking a bit much, no?

Maybe, but you'll never know until you ask. Also, I meant that they say something while the act was in progress. It makes it easier for another male to react and send the perv's ball sack up to his Adam's apple.

:)

I saw a guy with his pants open rubbing against another woman on the subway. She would move and the guy would walk over to the next girl, and repeat for about 3 or 4 stops. When I got off the train in Union Square I immediately walked over to the first uniformed officer I saw and relayed what had occurred and gave him a description of the guy and what he was wearing. The cops response was to laugh at me and say "well the train already left the station, what do you want me to do about it" LIke he was not in possession of a radio or any other communication device that would allow him to call his college at the next stop.
The only funny part (more ironic) of this story is that, the "a crowded train is not an excuse for sexual assault" recording must have played 10 times while this guy was sexual assaulting multiple people.

you mean colleague not college...right?

This happens to me about once every 1.5-2 years. The way it unfolded most recently was around October. I walk to the end of the platform at my Queens station so when I arrived at 59th and Lex I'm left near the exit with the escalators. I never imagined that I would be setting myself up to be flashed by a pervert! Because I was at the end of the platform the only form of escape would be walking passed my harrasser.

I glanced to my right and saw a Hispanic man about my age (early 20's) whip his sweatpants down to about mid-thigh and furiously began jerking his flaccid penis. He noticed I saw him and pulled his pants up. I looked away in horror and continued fiddling with my iPod. A moment later I look to check what he's up to and he'd walked about 5-10 feet closer to me, pants down jerking it. Finally after what seemed like an eternity the train came and I got on checking over my shoulder- he was still on the platform. Then right as the doors closed he got on the same train as me at the opposite end of the car and watched me until he finally got off at Elmhurst Ave. He boarded at 63rd drive. For three trainstops I felt this guy watching me. I didn't get off the train because I wasn't going allow some pervert to not only ruin my afternoon but also make me late.

Oh and this was at about 1pm the last time a pervert flashed me it was at least a more appropriate time of about 2am

CAMERAS on all platforms and subway cars are necessary to discourage crime and identify criminals once a crime takes place.

I mean, before anything please be aware that I have nothing but sympathy for you but -

the fact that you didn't immediately yell out 'PERVERT' probably gave him the idea it was ok to approach you the 1st time. Just sayin.

What's the point of yelling pervert when the only person near by IS THE PERVERT?

It's probably a mating tactic in his native land.

What I I say? You are attractive to dicks.

Use the resources dedicated to recreational marijuana and open container arrests/tickets and dedicate them instead to subway perverts.

Not unless you're a pre-cog.

But they only anticipate murders, not rapes or penis rubbings.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to wash the nerd out of my mouth.

i've seen numerous times pervy looking dudes were playing with the cameras on their phones. even tho they havent done anything illegal yet should i be proactive and "say something" since i "saw something"?

yes good idea you should definitely go tell a police officer that you saw a guy that "you think looks like he might be a pervert" and he was using a camera phone. im sure they will take it very seriously

Why would I report it? That's time out of my day to a guy who already fucked with me, who's not going to get caught unless I get a picture of him, which I never have managed to do. I once saw another girl report being groped to a cop on the platform, and he basically told her "Sucks to be you." The reality is in most cases they can't do anything about it. That's the evil of large crowds in small spaces. (Well, one of the evils.)

Too bad detectives Benson and Stabler are fictional :-(

When I brandish my penis on the train, one should be honored to be in the presence of such awesomeness.