More subway riders have reported being punched, kicked and stabbed so far this year than last — and many of them were police ...

It goes back to 2022, when assaults on police officers jumped dramatically and have been rising ever since. In one out of every three felony assaults in the subway, the victim is a police officer. ...

While violent crime in the subway has fluctuated in the past few years, there has been a substantial increase in key categories since before the coronavirus pandemic. Felony assaults in the system ...

New York Police Department data showed that subway felony assaults rose by 20% since last year, despite other crimes decreasing.

A 68-year-old MTA worker was attacked with a metal pipe at the Bergen Street subway station in Brooklyn. The assailant fled ...

Subway assaults often involve strangers, in contrast to similar crimes on the streets, he said. Reeping added that a sizable increase in physical attacks on police officers — which are ...

Crime on public transit did increase during the COVID pandemic ... tend to focus on rare but sensational incidents such as subway assaults, as opposed to routine ones such as car crashes.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said she has ordered more officers to patrol the subway trains and platforms ... including incidents of murder, felony assault, robbery and burglary -- decreased ...