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King County Metro says some incident types fell in 2024; outlines 2025 safety, deployment plans
Summary
King County Metro briefed the Regional Transit Committee on April 16 on safety and security metrics requested by a King County Council budget proviso, reporting mixed trends across incident types and describing planned 2025 responses.
King County Metro briefed the Regional Transit Committee on April 16 on safety and security metrics requested by a King County Council budget proviso, reporting mixed trends across incident types and describing planned 2025 responses.
Metro Deputy General Manager Ernest Khandugy and Metro Chief Safety Officer Rebecca Frankhauser told the committee the agency uses employee-filed security incident reports, normalized per million boardings, to guide deployments and measure progress.
Frankhauser said Metro recorded 79 transit worker assaults in 2023 and 85 in 2024 — about “less than 1 transit worker assault per million boardings” overall — and that drug-use reports fell from 1,236 incidents in 2023 to 678 in 2024 (about 103 per month in 2023 versus 56.5 per month in 2024). Other incident categories changed more modestly: passenger disturbances…
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