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NY MTA Ad Campaign Promotes ‘Transit Watch’

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has begun promoting—through ads on board its buses and subway trains—a program that offers rewards of up to $2,000 to public transit riders or others who offer details to police after witnessing a crime against a public transit system employee. Information about the program is also available here.

New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo introduced the Transit Watch program earlier this year, following a joint conference convened by the MTA and the Transport Workers Union Local 100 to address an increase in the number of assaults on agency personnel. Assaulting an MTA employee is a Class D felony punishable by up to seven years in prison.

Customers who see a crime take place are asked to call the NYPD’s CrimeStoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS. All calls are kept strictly confidential, and you need not provide your name.

Transit Watch falls under a national program administered by FTA and made possible by the New York City Police Foundation.

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