The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Chairman and CEO Patrick J. Foye announced that the authority today launched a new “Hate Has No Place in Our Transportation System” public awareness campaign aimed at combating hate crimes.The new campaign will appear on digital screens across subways, buses, and commuter railroads promoting kindness, respect and solidarity.
The NYPD Transit Bureau investigated 75 hate crimes in 2019, an increase of 42 percent over the 53 investigated in 2018. The number of hate crimes investigated by the MTA Police Department held steady in 2019, declining three percent to 26 hate crimes investigated on the Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad and Staten Island Railway, from 27 the prior year.