{"id":230039,"date":"2021-04-19T00:49:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T21:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/subway-crime-still-outpacing-ridership-despite-drop-in-march\/"},"modified":"2021-04-19T00:49:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T21:49:22","slug":"subway-crime-still-outpacing-ridership-despite-drop-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/subway-crime-still-outpacing-ridership-despite-drop-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"#Subway crime still outpacing ridership despite drop in March"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Subway crime still outpacing ridership despite drop in March<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Subway crime rates dropped in March compared to the previous month, according to newly-released NYPD stats \u2014 but remain far higher than where they stood pre-pandemic.<\/p>\n

The subways saw 2.32 felony crimes per million riders in March 2021 \u2014 compared to 2.65 felonies per million riders the previous month and a comparatively puny 1.47 crimes per million riders across the year 2019.<\/p>\n

Last month\u2019s 118 major felonies in the subway system were 32.6 percent fewer than the 175 that recorded in March 2020 \u2014 half of which the city spent under COVID-19 lockdown, according to stats prepared for Wednesday\u2019s upcoming MTA board meeting.<\/p>\n

Major felonies \u2014 murder, rape, robbery, larceny, assault and burglary \u2014 are down 53.1 percent year-over-year, NYPD said. <\/p>\n

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But the drop in crime is outpaced by depressed ridership, which averaged around 67 percent below pre-pandemic levels through the first three months of 2021.<\/p>\n

The subways saw 2.12 major felonies per million riders in February 2020, the last \u201cnormal\u201d month on record.<\/p>\n

Felony assaults, meanwhile, have actually jumped since last year \u2014 up to 40 last month compared to 30 the previous March. Assaults have jumped 8.2 percent on the year, according to NYPD stats.<\/p>\n

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A 14-year-old girl was stabbed by another teen in the chest inside the Suteer Avenue-Rutland Road 3-line station in Brownsville on March 13, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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Transit officials and union leaders have spent much of the pandemic sounding the alarm about increased crime rates, and called on the city to dramatically increase the number of police patrolling trains and buses.<\/p>\n

But Mayor Bill de Blasio last week said the MTA\u2019s messaging was \u201cdiscouraging\u201d riders who stopped commuting at the start of COVID-19 from returning to the system.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, the MTA should be telling people it\u2019s right to come back, not discouraging them. Because regular everyday New Yorkers know that the subways are safe,\u201d de Blasio said.<\/p>\n

Subway ridership has crept up in recent weeks, and topped two million rides in one day on multiple days last week, MTA stats show. <\/p>\n

The MTA\u2019s customer surveys show crime and harassment among the top concerns of both current and \u201clapsed\u201d riders. An MTA spokesman noted that NYPD stats don\u2019t measure \u201charassment of customers and employees.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven\u00a0an\u00a0environment where\u00a0crime has fallen at half the rate of decline in ridership,\u00a0any reduction in felonies is great news<\/a> for our customers,\u201d spokesman Aaron Donovan said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe continue our call to add more police to the system to bring down the unacceptable number of assaults on our workers and customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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