The head of the MTA says the agency's new plan to cut down on crime on the subway is working, but a man who was brutally beaten for asking two people to turn down their radio, says the plan didn't come soon enough.
It was the middle of the day on Saturday when 78-year-old Stuart Beinhacker was heading to a gardening class.
He became the latest victim of violence underground on a downtown 2 train, where he says a man and woman were playing music too loud. "New York can't survive without a well-functioning subway system, but it needs to be safe for all New Yorkers, it needs to feel safe," MTA Chairman Janno Lieber said. Cops have renewed their focus on low level crimes like fare beating. In Penn Station, Eyewitness News reporter Josh Einiger watched as turnstile jumpers found themselves face to face with plainclothes MTA cops, and wound up with $100 tickets, for trying to beat a $2.75 fare."When you don't enforce the little things, when you don't enforce the minor infractions like fare evasion, other things seem to spiral out of control," MTA Police Department Chief John Mueller said.
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