Summonses for fare evasion this week were nearly double what they were in the same period last year as the city and state flood the subway system with cops, MTA Chair Janno Lieber said on Monday.
Fare evasion summonses were up 81% this week over the same period last year, with more than 1,500 people cited for jumping a turnstile, while total quality-of-life summonses are up 118% and arrests are up 95%, an MTA spokesperson said. Lieber has justified the crackdown and “omnipresence” of cops by arguing they lead to both more apprehension of suspects and more deterrence against lawbreaking.
The MTA is also beginning to bring on unarmed security contractors to stand at turnstiles as a deterrent against fare evasion, and to act as “eyes and ears” to help cops catch bad guys. The authority is onboarding about 50 guards per week, Lieber said, and deploying them to major stations facing consistent issues of fare evasion.
Lieber says that heavier enforcement against fare evasion prevents higher-level crimes, positing at the MTA board last week that “not every fare evader is a criminal but…virtually every criminal is a fare evader.”
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