Bypass Mta Serial Ban
NEW YORK — The MTA Board has formalized its push to boot repeat criminals from the subway. The board passed a resolution Wednesday calling for a 'mechanism' to ban people repeatedly convicted of serious crimes from the city's public transit system.
The measure asks the state Legislature to help the MTA tackle the serial offenders who are committing violent crimes such as robberies and sexual assaults against straphangers, said MTA Board member Sarah Feinberg, who proposed the resolution.
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Bypass Mta Serial Ban
'The resolution seeks to lay out a clear position, to draw a line in the sand, to state that we will do all that we can on our side of the issue,' Feinberg said at Wednesday's board meeting. 'But in terms of the practical reality, we can't ban anyone right now and we won't be able to.'
The measure's passage came as the MTA ratchets up its efforts to crack down on fare evasion and assaults on transit workers with a team of 500 cops dedicated to addressing those issues.
But it came despite a recent decrease in crime on public transportation. The NYPD recorded 199 major felonies in the subways last month, a 7 percent drop from May 2018. The first five months of the year saw saw 940 major felonies, most of them grand larcenies, down 2.3 percent from the same period last year, NYPD figures show.
The resolution states that the MTA, the Legislature and law enforcement have a 'shared responsibility' to protect transit workers and riders that overrides their responsibility to let repeat robbers or sexual assaulters use public transportation.
It calls for 'decisive action' by the Legislature and the criminal justice system to address transit recidivists, such as giving courts the authority to ban those people from the system for a certain period of time.
'MTA facilities are different, and therefore should be treated differently, than the open streets and communities of the MTA region,' the resolution reads.
David Jones, the only Board member to abstain from the vote, said he worries that such bans could unintentionally prevent people from getting to work or accessing mental-health counseling, which could continue their reliance on crime to get by.
The MTA should also try not to replicate the racial disparities that have emerged in the enforcement of fare evasion, he said.
'I'm just worried that we don't use a sledgehammer to take on a problem which is severe, but is dropping every month that we have reports,' Jones siad.
Feinberg said she would be happy to meet with advocates to discuss their concerns about the proposal. But she stuck by her position that the MTA has to do something about dangerous riders.
'I agree it's really important to get this right, but I also think it's really important take action when we've got reports form the police about people entering the system and being arrested 20, 30, 40, 50 times for sexually assaulting women, kids, and robbing folks,' she said.