A top MTA official downplays subway crime concerns, highlighting positive crime statistics while ignoring the growing perception of fear and the recent surge in homicides.
Some of these high-profile incidents, you know, terrible attacks have gotten in people’s heads and made the whole system feel unsafe. He then doubled down, bragging, “The overall stats are positive. Last year we were actually at 12½% less crime than 2019, the last year before COVID. Plus, this assumes crime is reported as often now as it was then, when the difficulty in comparing crime stats is one reason experts call homicides the gold standard for measuring crime — it always leaves a corpse.
More dead bodies these days: 43 these last few years, since COVID hit in March 2020; it took the prior And it got worse: Lieber next talked fare evasion, which is indeed a “gateway crime” of subway disorder and peril — but he pretended that spending up to a billion on new turnstiles will make a real difference, when testing has shown they answer is better policing and serious prosecutions, not burning cash on bogus technocratic fixes (including the million bucks it’ll burn on that absurd “personas” study of farebeaters). From the MTA’s toll cash-grab, Lieber first gaslit about the subway’s No. 1 problem, crime, then bragged about the positive stats
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