In the week since Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul announced they’d send 1,200 officers into the subway each day, fare evasions and arrests in the system have skyrocketed, according to the MTA's CEO.
“Using fear of violent crime on the subways as an excuse to issue tickets and fines for fare evasion — a practice that overwhelmingly targets young Black and Latinx people who simply cannot afford the fare — is the worst form of irrational, racially biased criminalization of poverty,” said Molly Griffard, staff attorney with the Cop Accountability Project at The Legal Aid Society, in a statement.
Major felony crimes on the subways are up 42% so far this year over last year, but down 4% compared to 2019,Subways remain safer than many other places in the city by several measures; there have been more shootings in city playgrounds than on subways, and nine times as many pedestrians killed on city streets by cars and trucks than on city subways.
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