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MTA's response to federal request for crime data
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Council Member Brooks-Powers inquires about the MTA's response to a federal request for crime data. John McCarthy from the MTA assures that they will provide the requested information before the March 31 deadline, highlighting the MTA's commitment to transparency and public information sharing.
- The MTA has become a 'gold standard' for public information availability
- Crime in the transit system is down 40% compared to the same period in 2020
- The requested information is already publicly available, but will be compiled for the federal government
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
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Now, the president had indicated that I think the MTA has until tonight to release crime data or it risks losing some funding.
0:46:42
Will the MTA be releasing that data?
John McCarthy
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Yeah.
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I think so there was a letter sent yesterday night to the MTA asking for data by March 31.
0:46:53
We'll certainly get that to the Department of Transportation before that date.
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Fortunately, you guys may have the members may have been made aware that we have really become the gold standard of public information.
0:47:11
We get that from advocate groups that have, in the recent past, been critical of the NTA.
0:47:19
Now we're sort of leading the league and getting information up on on websites and available to the public so that they can scrutinize it and figure it out.
0:47:28
That information that the federal government's asking for, little secret, it's already it's already out there in the public.
0:47:34
So we'll put it together for them and make sure they have it in a handy way so that they can learn.
0:47:38
But the good we have a ton of information on public safety, sort of the work that we've done to reduce crime.
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We're down 40% compared to the same first two months of twenty twenty, right before COVID.
0:47:51
Compared to the first two months of this year, we're down forty percent.
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So there's there's a lot.
0:47:55
There's a story to tell and we look forward to telling them.