New Yorkers reflect on crime and safety in the city
Nearly 90% of New York City’s public-facing subway and bus workers said they were assaulted or harassed by unruly, unhinged and violent passengers during the pandemic, according to a shocking new study.
Women MTA workers particularly faced the brunt of rider rage, with 70% telling researchers they were physically assaulted while on the job, the New York University study published Wednesday found. The wave of transit violence didn’t come as a surprise to MTA worker Mohammad Quader, who still suffers on-the-job panic attacks after a December 2022 attack in which a“It’s happening almost every day,” Quader told The Post. “Most of them are unreported.Robert Mecea for NY Post The study was conducted by the NYU Silver School of Social Work in collaboration with the Transport Workers Union Local 100 and covered nearly 1,300 workers who opted to fill out a survey about their experiences between 2020 and 2023. Of MTA workers surveyed, 89% reported victimization — a catchall including physical or sexual assault, harassment, intimidation and theft. The study noted it’s a much higher rate than that in other professions such as health care, where 58% of workers reported experiencing assault or harassment.“Physical assault was significantly more common among women in the bus division compared to female subway workers, male bus workers, and male subway workers,” the study states.The findings — which researchers noted could be inflated owing to the volunteer responses — broadly dovetail with other data showing a COVID-19-eraQuader said his own “traumatic situation” — in which an unhinged man, Alexe St. Fleur, snuck into an L line dispatch room and brutally walloped him from behind — left him with deep mental wounds that require ongoing therapy and four medications. When he tried to return to work, he said he experienced panic attacks and flashback memories from the attack. He’s now off the job until he can recuperate.St. Fleur, 37, pleaded guilty to attempted murder and is serving a seven-year prison sentence, records show. The psychic scars borne by transit workers during the pandemic prompted the study, said Robyn Gershon, an NYU clinical professor of epidemiology who was one of its co-authors. She pinned the harassment MTA workers was part of a breakdown in the social contract during the COVID-19 pandemic. “COVID was almost like letting the cat out of the bag, all bets were off,” she said. “People could act with impunity in all sorts of ways.”Documented incidents of assaults and harassment for the first seven months of each year going back to 2021 add up to roughly 5,400 employees, or 11% of city transit’s workforce, transit officials argued in a in a letter sent Tuesday to NYU’s president. The letter doesn’t dispute MTA workers face assault and harassment, and notes the agency’s leadership in 2022 pushed for any attack on transit workers to be reclassified as a felony.“It’s actually a poll, conducted in close coordination with the Transport Workers Union, that uses flawed methodology to attack the NYPD and stir panic that the vast majority of transit workers in New York City are being harassed or assaulted on the job,” wrote Demetrius Crichlow, the interim president of New York City Transit. “That’s simply not true.”Alex Rodriguez posts cryptic quote after ex-fiancee J.Lo files for divorce from Ben Affleck Tech mogul Mike Lynch and daughter reportedly found dead in wreck of yacht Baysian off Italian coast — as authorities recover 5 bodies from hullInside the Democratic Party’s plan to recruit 5,000 influencers: Selfies at the DNC and 'trying to make Kamala cool'Melania Trump steps out in summery striped midi dress in NYC Ben Affleck smiles deboarding private jet with ex Jennifer Garner hours before Jennifer Lopez filed for divorceRobert Mecea for NY PostSubway cleaner Anthony Nelson was trying to defend a straphanger when he was attacked.
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