Delusional NYC Democrat who says subway crime is just 'in people's head' earns $400k and 'never take

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Delusional NYC Democrat who says subway crime is just 'in people's head' earns $400k and 'never takes the train'

Daily Mail
By BETHAN SEXTON
7 January 2025

New York City's public transit boss who insists subway crime is 'in people's heads' earns $400,000-a-year and has a chauffeur. 

The MTA's chairman Janno Lieber made the provocative claims in a Bloomberg interview on Monday.

And now critics have focused on his privilege, with former mayoral candidate and public safety campaigner Curtis Sliwa insisting Lieber 'NEVER uses the subway.'

MTA officials have insisted that Lieber does use the subway to travel between his his $2.2 million Brooklyn home and his FiDi office. But they also admitted that he sometimes uses a chauffeur.

Lieber's OMNY account shows he 'tapped in' to the MTA system 600 times over a 12-month period ending on April 30 according to transit officials, Newsday reports.

He stated that subway crime fell by 12.5 percent last year compared to 2019, the last full year before the pandemic.

'The overall stats are positive,' Lieber insisted. 'Some of these high-profile incidents, you know, terrible attacks have gotten in people's heads and made the whole system feel unsafe.'

His comments come just weeks after Debrina Kawam, 57, was lit on fire and burned to death on a subway car as she slept.

The horrific murder is just one of a series of high-profile incidents which have left New Yorkers feeling unsafe while using the Big Apple's underground transit system.

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[Smokin Joe]

He stated that subway crime fell by 12.5 percent last year compared to 2019, the last full year before the pandemic.

Meaningless.
Is this raw numbers, a 'rate' per number of subway users, or what?

Is it a reporting error because the likelihood of someone being proseccuted for the crime has gone down? Or because the incidents aren't being reported or written up?