Here's the actual data on recorded crime on New York City's transit system, from 1993–2025, for the period from January 1–July 13. There's little evidence of an upsurge in crime, a phenomenon that the US DOT Secretary often claims is occurring.
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I'm going to guess 2 things. 1) that big drop in the graph is during peak covid and 2) Duffus is comparing that number to todays number.
jul 16, 2025, 4:39 pm • 1 0 • view
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jul 16, 2025, 6:53 pm • 0 0 • view
(And I should note the data pre-1996 are missing or incomplete.)
jul 16, 2025, 3:13 pm • 10 0 • view
It appears that both facts are true. Overall crime is trending down. And assaults are up significantly from pre pandemic levels
jul 16, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Do you have data to back this up?
jul 16, 2025, 3:34 pm • 1 0 • view
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/n...
jul 16, 2025, 3:43 pm • 0 0 • view
It's up by 6473727273% from 1993 !
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