For the people who don’t live in NYC: “incident with a deranged member of the public” is usually code for “sharing space with a homeless person minding their ow

For the people who don’t live in NYC: “incident with a deranged member of the public” is usually code for “sharing space with a homeless person minding their own business”. That is (sadly) not infrequent. Incidents in which you’re actually in danger are vanishingly rare.