Mta fare evasion

5 Nov 2019 NYPD out of MTA!” Last month, the MTA hired over 500 additional transit police personnel to deal with fare evasion by subway passengers. In the  4 Nov 2019 According to the latest NYPD stats, fare evasion enforcement is up 50 percent, even with fewer arrests.

3 Feb 2020 police brutality on the MTA, and to demand free subway fare for all. night was punctuated by heavy police presence and mass fare evasion. 6 Mar 2020 This summer the MTA implemented a series of policies to combat fare evasion, including spending $249 million over the next four years to hire  23 Oct 2019 According to data released by the MTA, fare evasion on New York City's buses and subways is cost the agency $225M last year, with that  26 Nov 2019 “Did you hear from NYPD that there was a shortage of transit police that they needed supplemented by MTA police?” Levin asked. MTA Chairman  19 Jun 2019 An additional 70 M.T.A. employees, in so-called “eagle teams,” will also be part of the effort. How will they deter fare evasion? The plan relies  21 Jul 2019 These newly-assigned officers are patrolling fare evasion “hot spots” determined by the MTA and handing out $100 tickets to anyone unwilling  17 Dec 2019 They hopped turnstiles and posted stickers to encourage mass fare evasion, a tactic taken from demonstrations in Santiago, Chile. The MTA 

The MTA has been pushing a false fare evasion narrative. The narrative goes like this: fare evasion is on the rise, and there is no excuse for it. Fare evasion is costing the MTA inordinate amounts of money. The “problem” of fare evasion can be policed away. No credible evidence supports this narrative.

Subway Fare Evasion Reports. Quarterly reports on the number of arrests for theft of services (Penal Law Section 165.15(3)) in a New York City subway station  3 Feb 2020 police brutality on the MTA, and to demand free subway fare for all. night was punctuated by heavy police presence and mass fare evasion. 6 Mar 2020 This summer the MTA implemented a series of policies to combat fare evasion, including spending $249 million over the next four years to hire  23 Oct 2019 According to data released by the MTA, fare evasion on New York City's buses and subways is cost the agency $225M last year, with that 

The MTA claims that fare evasion will lead to $215 million in lost revenue this year. Byford stated that roughly 16 percent of bus riders skip the fare, while about four percent of subway riders

The MTA is hiring 500 new transit police to crack down on assaults and fare evasion on city subways and buses, it announced Thursday. The new recruits will help replace the hundreds of redeployed

The MTA has been pushing a false fare evasion narrative. The narrative goes like this: fare evasion is on the rise, and there is no excuse for it. Fare evasion is costing the MTA inordinate amounts of money. The “problem” of fare evasion can be policed away. No credible evidence supports this narrative.

Fare evasion on subways and buses is soaring — but could be even worse than the MTA has reported, according to the agency’s watchdog. An investigation conducted earlier this year and published

The MTA's tracking of fare evasion — one of its key priorities — is full of flaws, according to the transit authority's inspector general. After bus and subway ridership 

17 Dec 2019 As part of a crackdown on fare evasion, the MTA and police will in part focus on vandals who break MetroCard vending machines to sell swipes  18 Dec 2018 MTA estimates fare dodgers in buses cost $119 million, whilst people who jump the turnstiles amount to $96 million loses.

The fare-evasion figures point to more pain at the MTA, whose leadership has aggressively pushed for tolling motorists in the most congested parts of Manhattan to drum up money for the financially