![]() ![]() The biggest increase in crime was drug use. During a roughly six-month period from September 2022 through February 2023, crime rose by 8%. In February of 2023, crimes on the county transit system rose 21% compared to February 2022, Metro reported. 22, 2023 totaled 3,267, about a 15% increase from the same period the year before. The number of crimes reported from Mato Feb. 27-A month ago, LA Metro extended contracts with three policing agencies and expanded the roster of its security officers in an effort to reduce rising crime on buses, trains and transit stations so that riders who had left the system, because they don't feel safe, would return.īut reports released on Thursday, April 27 by Metro indicate that police and sheriff deputies and Metro's Transit Security Officers were busy dealing with assaults and drug abuse as crimes spiked in the first quarter of this year. ![]()
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