POLITICS: LA Metro’s Crime Started with Decision Not to Enforce Fares

LA Metro’s crime started with decision not to enforce fares — for the sake of ‘equity’

Metro’s ideological commitment to transit equity appears to stand between a safer Metro and more dead Angelenos.

POLITICS: LA Metro’s crime started with decision not to enforce fares

Every day, thousands of Angelenos take a deep breath, step out of their homes and plunge themselves into a transit experience straight out of “Mad Max.” The city’s buses have become rolling homeless shelters, replete with drugs and feces. Its trains are rolling platforms of murder and mayhem. The transformation has been swift and stark. Between 2020 and 2025, crime in the system more than doubled. A Los Angeles Metro Rail Expo Line train at the …

L.A. Metro Is a Crime-Ridden Hellscape

The transit system’s refusal to enforce fares has turned the trains over to criminals.

The Downfall of America's Cities: How LA's Transit System Became a Haven for Crime

LA's transit system faces rising crime amid fare enforcement cuts and controversial woke policies.