During portions of an interview with NBC News aired on Friday’s “NBC Nightly News,” New York MTA Chair Janno Lieber stated that “numerically, we’ve made a lot of progress” on safety and crime on the New York City subway and “Overall, it’s a safe place, but we have to push back against the disorder and the people who commit these serious, high-profile crimes.”
In response to a question from NBC News Correspondent Sam Brock on his assessment of the state of subway safety, Lieber said, “Well, numerically, we’ve made a lot of progress. We’re actually down 12% in felony crime versus pre-COVID, but we’ve had these terrible, high-profile incidents.”
He also stated, “The New York City subway carries 4.5 million people a day. That’s more than the population of the city of Los Angeles. On a daily basis, we have five to six felony crimes. Overall, it’s a…
