{"id":288372,"date":"2025-10-09T04:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/288372\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T04:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:51:09","slug":"san-diego-mts-says-crime-down-almost-25-from-last-year-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/288372\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego MTS says crime down almost 25% from last year \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/tag\/mts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego Metropolitan Transit System<\/a> has seen a 24% drop in crime throughout its transit system during the first eight months of this year, the agency announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>MTS officials said that between January and August of 2025, 969 crimes were reported on MTS services, which was 76% of the 1,274 crimes reported during the same time period last year.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are part of a report that is slated to go before the MTS Public Safety Committee on Thursday. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdmts.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-10-09-pre-meeting-packet_0.pdf#page=38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full report<\/a> can be viewed on the agency&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Taking a comprehensive look at passenger safety over the past several years has been our top priority, and these results show the impact of our ongoing efforts to make MTS a secure and welcoming transit system for all riders,&#8221; MTS Board Chair Pro Tem and San Diego County Supervisor Monica Montgomery Steppe said in a statement. &#8220;We&#8217;re committed to building on this progress by working closely with MTS staff and the community to ensure all riders feel secure and supported on our buses and trolleys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MTS officials credited the crime decrease to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/mts-plans-to-make-trolleys-buses-safer-by-hiring-officers-adding-patrols-lighting-hotline\/3421600\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bolstered security efforts<\/a> initiated two years ago following a rider survey that indicated travelers sought a larger security presence. Those efforts included increasing the number of security officers and code compliance inspectors, as well as adding security outposts to busy transit centers and a more stringent fare enforcement policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been intentional with our improvements on a lot of fronts, and the results are beginning to show,&#8221; MTS CEO Sharon Cooney said in a statement. &#8220;We have been listening to our riders for a few years now through customer feedback, surveys and research that the top priority for riders is feeling safe while using the system. Ridership grew 7% last year and a big factor in that can be attributed to this reduction in crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System has seen a 24% drop in crime throughout its transit system during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":288373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,1035,38150,3549,7264,522,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-288372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-crime-and-courts","12":"tag-mts","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-transportation","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115342416118460823","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}