MTA police report lowest crime rate in agency history
New Yorkers may not be safe from delayed trains, but at least they’re safer from crime.
Overall crime in 2018 reached its lowest rate in the 20-year history of the MTA Police, dropping more than 13 percent from 2017, the agency reported on Tuesday.
Robbery, which the MTA calls a “a bell weather for violent crime,” dropped by 41 percent, from 44 incidents in 2017 to just 26 incidents in 2018.