The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/27/bart-touts-nearly-50-drop-in-property-crime/A new report by BART and its police deparment finds that crime is down overall on the BART system, with the most significant decrease happening in property crimes. Also, fare evasion citations are also down. BART's latest report on crimes occurring on the transit system finds some significant year-over-year declines in most categories. Violent crime is down 36% over all, with 2024 seeing 203 violent crimes overall by this point in the year, and just 130 reported so far this year. Those include 92 aggravated assaults (up from 73 at this point last year), however robberies are way down, with just 37 reported in the first seven months of 2025, compared to 126 in the same period las

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