Metro - File #: 2023-0413

• File #: 2023-0413
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 6/13/2023
• In control: Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee
• On agenda: 7/20/2023
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE Public Safety Report.
• Sponsors: Executive Management Committee
• Indexes: 7th Street/Metro Center Station, Call For Projects, Central Los Angeles subregion, City of Los Angeles, Civic Center/Grand Park Station, Cleanliness (Graffiti Abatement), Design build, Hollywood/Vine Station, Homeless Outreach, Informational Report, Law enforcement, Link Union Station, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Sheriffs Department, Macarthur Park, Metro Busway J Line, Metro Rail A Line, Metro Rail B Line, Metro Rail C Line, Metro Rail D Line, Metro Transit Ambassadors, North Hollywood, North Hollywood Station, Pershing Square Station, Prevention, Property crimes, Red Line MOS-1, Red Line MOS-2 West, Redondo Beach Station - South, Safety, Safety and security, Security, Station 0602, Station 0608, System safety, Weapons, Westlake, Westlake/Macarthur Park Station, Westside/Central Service Sector, Wilshire/Vermont Station

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OPERATIONS, SAFETY, AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE COMMITTEE
JULY 20, 2023
Subject
SUBJECT: MONTHLY UPDATE ON PUBLIC SAFETY

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE Public Safety Report.

Issue
ISSUE

Metro is committed to providing outstanding trip experiences for all users of the transportation system. In furtherance of Vision 2028 Goal, Metro is implementing a multi-faceted plan to improve safety and the perceptions of safety for both riders and employees. The following summarizes current initiatives aimed at accomplishing this objective and recent public safety trends.

Background
BACKGROUND

At its February 2022 meeting, the Board received and filed a Reimagining Public Safety Framework (Framework) which outlines a human-centered approach to public safety guided by the principle that everyone is entitled to a safe, dignified, and human experience. This Framework reflects Metro's Public Safety Mission and Values statements which were adopted by the Board in December 2021. In March 2023, the Board adopted a revised Code of Conduct and a Bias-Free Policing Policy and Public Safety Analytics Policy.

These actions align with numerous initiatives to improve safety and the perception of safety on the system, including the increased, strategic, and layered deployment of personnel (comprised of customer-centered ambassadors and community intervention specialists, as well as transit security and law enforcement) and the piloting of safety and security interventions to address specific concerns (e.g., drug use and crime) on the system.

Discussion
DISCUSSION

System Security and Law Enforcement (SSLE) is responsible for overseeing safety initiatives on the Metro system and works in coordination with other departments, including Operations and Customer Experience, to implement strategies to advance this objective. Following is a snapshot of May activities and data, which is the most recent month for which sys...