Metro - File #: 2020-0079

• File #: 2020-0079
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 1/17/2020
• In control: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee
• On agenda: 2/20/2020
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE Transit Safety and Security Report.
• Sponsors: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Commit, Executive Management Committee
• Indexes: Blue Line Improvement, City of Los Angeles, Cleaning, Construction, Gateway Cities (Southeast LA County) Service Sector, Gateway Cities subregion, Homeless Outreach, Homeless persons, Housing, Informational Report, It's Off Limits, Key Performance Indicator, Law enforcement, Law enforcement personnel, Long Beach, Long Beach Police Department, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Sheriffs Department, Los Angeles Union Station, Metro Blue Line, Metro Busway J Line, Metro Gold Line, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Red Line, Outreach, Police, Police reports, Program, Property crimes, Quality of life, Safety, Safety and security, San Fernando Valley Service Sector, Security, Sylmar, Theft, Transit Homeless Action Plan, Transit safety, Uniform Crime Reporting

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OPERATIONS, SAFETY AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Subject
SUBJECT: MONTHLY UPDATE ON TRANSIT SAFETY AND SECURITY PERFORMANCE

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE Transit Safety and Security Report.

Issue
ISSUE
This report reflects December 2019 performance data as reported under the transit policing deployment strategy which is a combination of in-house fare compliance officers, private security for fixed assets and a multi-agency law enforcement deployment strategy by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD), and Long Beach Police Department (LBPD). The information in this report summarizes Crimes Against Persons, Crimes Against Property, and Crimes Against Society data under Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, average emergency response times, assaults on bus operators, and Metro's fare compliance and homeless outreach efforts. The Six Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are Uniform Crime Reporting guidelines, Average Emergency Response Times, Percentage of Time Spent on the System, Ratio of Staffing Levels vs Vacant Assignments, Ratio of Proactive vs Dispatched Activity, and Number of Grade Crossing Operations.

BACKGROUND
UCR is a National Incident-Based Reporting System from the US Department of Justice. It captures crime offenses in one of three categories: Crimes Against Persons,
Crimes Against Property, and Crimes Against Society.

Discussion
DISCUSSION

Crime stats are as follows:



Crimes Against Persons
For the month of December 2019, crimes against persons increased by 22 crimes system-wide compared to the same period last year.

Crimes Against Property
For the month of December 2019, crimes against property decreased by 25 crimes system-wide compared to the same period last year.

Crimes Against Society
For the month of December 2019, crimes against society increas...