Board Chair Janice Hahn rides the Metro after the agency reached a five-year high in violent crime incidents.
After a Metro board member said she was too afraid to ride the system alone, new Board chair Janice Hahn climbed aboard to see the state of the public transportation that her father, Kenny Hahn, helped build.An analysis of the last 12 months of Metro's available data shows that violent crime across the entire system has increased by nearly 33%, a majority of which happened on trains.
'I directed an immediate surge, an increase in patrols, increased visibility,' she said. Hahn said she wants to see uniformed law enforcement regularly going through Metro buses and trains.Sheriff Robert Luna's deputies patrol 900 square miles of bus lines and 90 miles of rail covering 95 cities across LA County. He said increasing visibility is a priority of his. 'There are times that they jump on a bus,' Luna said.
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