{"id":2386973,"date":"2025-01-06T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T19:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-transit-boss-downplays-subway-crimes-that-have-gotten-in-peoples-heads-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T14:17:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T19:17:51","slug":"nyc-transit-boss-downplays-subway-crimes-that-have-gotten-in-peoples-heads-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-transit-boss-downplays-subway-crimes-that-have-gotten-in-peoples-heads-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC transit boss downplays subway crimes that have gotten \u2018in people\u2019s heads\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyc-transit-boss-downplays-subway-crimes-that-have-gotten-in-peoples-heads-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2386973&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The transit chief of New York City, Janno Lieber, has responded to concerns about subway safety amid a series of violent \u200dincidents, such as a\u200b woman\u2063 being set on fire and \u2063another person \u2064being thrown onto the tracks. he suggested that these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-to-speak-at-cpac-in-dallas-in-july\/\" title=\"Trump to Speak at CPAC in Dallas in July\">high-profile events<\/a> have created a perception of insecurity within the transit system. despite these incidents, Lieber emphasized that\u200d overall crime\u2062 statistics have improved, with a reported 12.5%\u200c decrease in crime compared\u2062 to 2019,the year before\u200b the COVID \u200cpandemic. \u2064He aims to reassure the public that the transit system is safe.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">NYC transit boss downplays subway crimes that have gotten &lsquo;in people&rsquo;s heads&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1928173\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The boss of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">New York City<\/a>&lsquo;s transit system defended its safety Monday, saying &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-nba-is-investigating-after-g-league-player-jeremy-lin-says-he-was-called-coronavirus-on-court\/\" title=\"The NBA Is Investigating After G-League Player Jeremy Lin Says He Was Called \u2018Coronavirus\u2019 On Court\">high-profile incidents<\/a>&rdquo; such as a woman being set on fire &ldquo;have gotten in people&rsquo;s heads and made the whole system feel unsafe.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3276708\/new-york-launches-new-congestion-pricing-despite-opposition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> Metropolitan Transit Authority<\/a> has come under considerable heat for several horrific incidents in the past weeks that have seen people killed or gravely injured. Another incident saw a man shoved onto subway tracks on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">New Year&rsquo;s<\/a> Eve, suffering serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Some of these high-profile incidents, you know, terrible attacks have gotten in people&rsquo;s heads and made the whole system feel unsafe,&rdquo; Janno Lieber, MTA chairman and CEO, told <em>Bloomberg<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The overall stats are positive. Last year we were actually at 12 and a half percent less crime than 2019, the last year before COVID,&rdquo; Lieber said.<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/06\/us-news\/mta-boss-janno-lieber-brushes-off-subway-crime-as-in-peoples-heads-as-congestion-pricing-kicks-in\/#\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lieber also spoke about putting up safety measures such as walls in front of subway tracks to prevent people from falling or being pushed onto the tracks, though the MTA is prioritizing fare evasion measures first.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We put a billion dollars in our new capital program since fare evasion, and this whole phenomenon has definitely accelerated post-COVID,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;&ldquo;So we are going to start to replace all these turnstiles, which worked when I was a kid, but clearly are ineffective now for in the area that we&rsquo;re living in, we got to replace them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>New York has seen violence in its subway system, a vast network of underground tunnels that ferry thousands of New Yorkers around every day, for decades. Felony assaults are up 55% since 2019, and five more people were pushed onto the tracks last year compared to 20 people in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The violence has continued despite an increased police and National Guard presence. Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) deployed more than 1,000 state police and National Guard units to the subway systems and then touted statistics saying subway crime was down 42% since January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In March, I took action to make our subways safer for the millions of people who take the trains each day,&rdquo; she posted on X.&nbsp;&ldquo;Since deploying the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NationalGuardNY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1870932469266190412%7Ctwgr%5E1f075c8fcd11ca827d0db48ecf0ee1a718a5ab38%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcbs6albany.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fgovernor-hochul-posts-crime-is-going-down-on-subway-hours-after-woman-burned-killed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@NationalGuardNY<\/a> to support <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPDnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1870932469266190412%7Ctwgr%5E1f075c8fcd11ca827d0db48ecf0ee1a718a5ab38%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcbs6albany.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fgovernor-hochul-posts-crime-is-going-down-on-subway-hours-after-woman-burned-killed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@NYPDnews<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MTA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1870932469266190412%7Ctwgr%5E1f075c8fcd11ca827d0db48ecf0ee1a718a5ab38%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcbs6albany.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fgovernor-hochul-posts-crime-is-going-down-on-subway-hours-after-woman-burned-killed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@MTA<\/a> safety efforts and adding cameras to all subway cars, crime is going down, and ridership is going up.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">city recently implemented congestion pricing<\/a>, which will charge passenger vehicles and trucks a fee when they enter parts of Manhattan. The fee is expected to pay for a large chunk of the MTA&rsquo;s funding, which will go toward significant upgrades to the city&rsquo;s transit system.<\/p>\n<p>The money generated isn&rsquo;t expected to go toward safety in the system specifically, though it will modernize trains and subway stations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1928173\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1928173\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYC transit chief minimizes subway crime concerns, citing &#8220;high-profile incidents&#8221; affecting public perception of safety<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2386974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Janno-Lieber.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[47999,35975,48000,42251],"class_list":["post-2386973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-nyc-transit","tag-public-safety","tag-subway-crimes","tag-transportation-policy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Janno-Lieber.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2386977,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386973\/revisions\/2386977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2386974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}