L.A. Metro Is a Crime-Ridden Hellscape

The transit system’s refusal to enforce fares has turned the trains over to criminals.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/la-metro-crime-fare-enforcement

Fare evasion: Transit and legal advocates slam Mamdani’s NYPD for continuing ‘aggressive’ enforcement despite campaign promises to ease back | amNewYork

The Legal Aid Society on Friday took Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s NYPD to task, charging that it has maintained the same “aggressive enforcement” of fare evasion
— Read on www.amny.com/nyc-transit/fare-evasion-mamdani-nypd-aggressive-enforcement/

CPE Publishes Report on Improving BART Fare Enforcement Operations

This month, the Center for Policing Equity (CPE) published a new report, BART Fare Enforcement: Balancing Goals, Community Concerns, and Human Costs, in partnership with Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). The team received additional support from Stout, a global advisory firm specializing in corporate finance, accounting and transaction advisory, valuation, financial disputes, claims, and investigations. The report is a comprehensive assessment of BART’s approach to enforcing its fares, and CPE hopes to see the recommendations contained in this report adopted for implementation. Read on HERE

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Vital City | What To Do (and Not To Do) About Subway Safety

Vital City policy recommendations to fix an urgent set of problems
— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/what-to-do-about-subway-safety-nyc-policy-recommendations

NYPD quality-of-life subway crackdown aimed at finding criminal offenders

A homeless man accused of shoplifting 17 times at the same Queens Duane Reade and menacing a security guard was back behind bars after police took him into custody for stretching out across several subway seats, the Daily News has learned. The NYPD said the Feb. 7 arrest of Luis Caballero, 36, is an example of how enforcing NYC Transit rules maintains order in the subway system and often leads …
— Read on www.yahoo.com/news/nypd-quality-life-subway-crackdown-130000503.html

How to Get the Subways Under Control | City Journal

New York has the tools to do the job—if lawmakers and public officials find the will.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/how-to-get-the-subways-under-control

Why public safety is the key to functioning NYC subways — crime hot spots for over 50 years

New York has suffered 40 subway homicides since 2020, a five-fold increase compared to the post-millennial norm. New York went through a similarly abrupt change in public safety underground before, in the mid-1960s — but took 25 years to fix it. The fable of how New York achieved its miracle crime decline begins in 1990, with the stabbing death of 22-year-old Utah tourist Brian Watkins in a Midtown subway station, as he defended his parents from…
— Read on www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/why-public-safety-is-the-key-to-functioning-nyc-subways-crime-hot-spots-for-over-50-years/ar-AA1syvhz