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The NY department of transportation put out statistics at the same time they announced they were going to be increasing police presence on the subway that showed that while overall City crime is down, Transit crime is up by double digit percentages and is the worst it's been in a decade.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/newyork/news/police-suspect-bashed-man-over-the-head-with-a-metal-pipe-at-queens-subway-station/

Since the beginning of the year, there has been a 22.6% increase in subway crime: 266 incidents, compared to 217 in the same period of time in 2023.

That's not all. CBS New York Investigates has analyzed data from the last several years. It shows New Yorkers are reporting nearly three times as many felony assaults on the subway since 2022 than they were a decade ago, and about 46% more assaults than in 2019, the last year before the pandemic.