Guidelines for Collecting, Analyzing, and Reporting Transit Crime Data

This digest presents findings about current methods for collecting, analyzing, and using data on transit-related crime to make decisions on personnel deployment and on allocation of security resources. The findings are based on telephone interviews and on information collected from 21 transit agencies. These transit agencies use three distinct management approaches to transit policing and security operations: dedicated transit police departments, dedicated transit crime units within local police forces, and contracts with local enforcement or with private security companies.