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Committee hears Muni and SFPD data on transit crime; requests gender-disaggregated safety metrics
Summary
Supervisors held a hearing on public-transportation security focusing on rider and operator safety. Muni and SFPD reported multi-year reductions in assaults and robberies and described mitigation steps including expanded police surge deployments, video surveillance and near-universal driver enclosures; supervisors requested more gendered and sexual-assault data.
The committee convened a focused hearing Oct. 22 to examine security policies and procedures on San Francisco's public-transportation system. Sponsors flagged concerns that riders, particularly women, report feeling unsafe and that operator assaults have become a staffing and safety issue.
Muni security chief Chris Karparkovich presented five-year trends showing periods of decline in assaults and robberies (noting a 52% reduction in assaults since FY2015 and a cumulative 60% decline in…
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