NYC meets deadline to share subway crime data

New York City's transit and commuter services provider sent a letter with details on subway crime

and its mitigation efforts to the U.S. Department of Transportation. This comes in response to a request for the information from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy

who set a deadline of March 31st and indicated noncompliance could impact federal funding

Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chair and CEO Janer Lieberst correspondence to the DOT included crime statistics

de-escalation training for employees and efforts to. to curb fair evasion. Lieber claimed in his letter, New York City's transit system

remains one of the safest in the nation. Asserting crime rates in the subway system are among

the lowest in the last 30 years since these statistics were first collected, and citing data

from the Federal Transit Administration, which found riders in Minneapolis and Dallas are 13 times

more likely per trip to be the victim of an assault. He also argued the MTA does not receive

a fair share of federal funding for transit security, but still exceeds federal safety standards

When New York Governor Kathy Hochle having previously pointed out the MTA serves 43 of the nation transit riders yet receives only 17 of federal transit funding

However, Duffy maintains New York City should be doing more with its current resources to further reduce crime in the subway system

Posting a video to X, stating the problem could be fixed in just hours

In 36 hours, she could clean up the subways. This could be a non-issue. Crime rates are still up 56%

since 2019. This is not hard. Over the last six years, assaults on the city's transit system

have risen by about the amount Duffy stated. But the latest NYPD data also indicates that overall

subway crime is down, 17 and a half percent from last year and nearly 19 percent from

pre-pandemic levels in 2019. To further enhanced safety, Hockel has deployed state police

the National Guard, and additional NYPD patrols to subway stations. Meanwhile, Lieber has

extended an invitation to Duffy to tour the subway system firsthand, but it remains unclear

whether the DOT will accept. For Straight Arrow News, I'm Jack Almer