President Donald Trump's administration requires that the New York Transport Authority reduce the crime throughout the city or face significant discounts in federal financing.
Transport Minister Sean Duffy She issued the warning to the MTA in a message on Tuesday, saying that the new administration is here to “the arrangement of restoration.” The federal government currently provides billions of dollars in funding.
Davi wrote: “The direction of violent crime, displacement and other threats to public safety on one of the most prominent metro systems in our nation is unacceptable. After years of soft policies on the crime, our department enters to restore the system.”
He added: “Passengers get sick and get tired of feeling that they must endanger their safety to reach work, go to school or travel throughout the city. We will continue to fight to ensure that their federal tax dollars are heading towards a crime -free movement.”
Transfer again. Sean Duffy threatened the discounts in financing if New York City did not decrease crime rates. (Eduardo Munozalvarez/Viewpress/Samuel Corum/SiPa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Duffy's MTA data for fare evaders, attacks on workers, assaults on clients, and police patrols. It also requires accounting how MTA used federal financing to treat safety and security in the city's transportation system.
Davi wrote: “I appreciate your quick interest in this issue to avoid more consequences, including redirecting or blocking funding,” Davi wrote.
John McCarthy, the head of politics and foreign relations at MTA, argued that the crime “moving in the right direction” in a statement responding to Duffy's message on Tuesday.
“The crime decreased by 40 % compared to the same period in 2020 immediately before the epidemic, and until now in 2025, there are fewer major daily crimes in crossing from any year that are not developed at all,” said McCarthy.
The echo of McCarthy's statement claims that the president of MTA Jano Lieber in January, when he suggested that The last prominent subway attacks I “got the heads of people” to make them feel that the metro system is unsafe.
New York City authorities have sought to combat evasion throughout the city. (Michael Durgan/Fox News Digital)
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Lieber made the comments During the appearance of Bloomberg News, “Bloomberg talks”, arguing that “comprehensive statistics are positive” on the crime.
“Last year, we were actually 12.5 % less crime than 2019, last year before Covid. But there is no doubt that some of these prominent incidents, as you know, are terrible attacks, have obtained people's heads and made the whole regime feel less safe.”
