Most crime went down last year, but bike thefts and aggravated assaults went up.
Crime is mostly down on the MBTA with a few exceptions, according to figures released Tuesday.
Serious crime – as defined by the FBI as homicide, rape, aggravated assaults, robbery, auto theft, burglary and arson – went down 11 percent in 2012, according to MBTA Transit Police Chief Paul MacMillan in a statement.
Violent crime, which includes robbery, rape and aggravated assaults, were down 6 percent and there were no homicides on the MBTA last year.
There was also a 22 percent drop in robberies, and property crimes, including larceny and theft, went down 13 percent, according to the figures.
Aggravated assaults increased over the period, but MacMillan said an analysis of these incidents revealed no pattern.
According to the figures, two-thirds of all serious MBTA crime is non-violent property theft, and one-third of property theft involves stealing of bicycles.
“While we have had success in decreasing overall theft, bicycle theft continues to be a concern for us”, MacMillan said in the statement. “We continue to conduct awareness campaigns and the MBTA continues to construct pedal and park areas to better secure bicycles. As more and more bicycles are used by our passengers, we will continue to focus on this issue.”
Over this period, ridership increased to over 1.3 million passengers per day, according to the statement.
Jared
7:00 pm on Sunday, January 20, 2013
the MBTA T police there the crooks as seen with my own eyes, they sleep in theier vehicles we pay for the taxes and their sleeping on there jobs rentless jerks and useless titts and this uncalled for as my mt bike was gone missing from Forest Hills bike cage as they have no clue they checked the cameras well there uselss as they sleep on the job without serving to protect get rid of the over time wannba cops metro police , MBTA Police and keep the State Police and BPD as even though BPD are more of criminal minded police crooked as hell stealing from crime sceines u name it they need to get rid of Transit police replace with out regular police and stop wasting tax dollars for the dunkin guys who sit eat sleep on our tax money have right to hate them as they pulled me over last year in a rental on St. James Avenue/ Berkeley saying wa speeding in 10mph zone doing 25mph and to be making them rookies look better gave me huge ticket $231.00 plus lane change well the State police Officer said I was correct at my hearing no Radar devices just trying to bust peoples balls like there hard asses no brains carry a firearm wow we and cuffs cant tell nobody they cant be taped or have there photos taken if there the ones committing crimes in our communities caught by some one harrassing this homeless man @ back Bay station saying you need to give me your cell phone u cant take photos of me come here you u idiot fool well first of all its our rights to protect our communities from crooked