In January, Mayor Eric Adams highlighted subway crime being down and urged riders to come back to the system and look for extra NYPD officers patrolling the buses and trains.
Additionally, the NYPD’s transit chief said that major subway crime was down 31% for the first three weeks of 2023, compared to the same timeframe in 2022.
From Jan. 1, 2023 through Feb. 12, 2023, there have been 215 reported crimes on transit, according to NYPD data.
For the same period in 2022, there had been 275 reported crimes.
The chief executives of the city and state highlighted that for the first 3 1/2 weeks this year there have been an average of 1.7 crimes per one million riders a day, compared to an average of 2.8 per million in 2020—at the height of the pandemic—and 2.3 per million during 2021 and 2022.
That brings the current level of crime on the system close to the pre-pandemic figure of 1.5 crimes per one million daily riders.
Additionally, NYPD Transit Chief Michael Kemper said the downward trend is continuing. He said major subway crime was down 31% for the first three weeks of 2023, compared to the same timeframe in 2022.
The crime data was presented in tandem with preliminary findings from a December MTA survey that showed straphangers are starting to feel safer riding the subterranean system.
The full survey results will be released on Monday, according to an MTA spokesperson.
While they’ve made real gains over a short period of time, Hochul said, they’re not going to declare “mission accomplished” just yet.“We’ve been making progress, we’re making real progress,” Hochul said.
“Now, we’ll stand here and say we’re never finished. As long as there’s any crime being committed, we’ll never say ‘mission accomplished.’ Those words will never come from our lips.
But today’s an opportunity to give a progress report.”
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