PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — SEPTA’s third-quarter statistics have shown serious crime trending further downward — and citations for fare evasion way up.
Crime data for the first nine months of 2025 indicated an increase in robberies over the same period in 2024, but drops in seven of eight categories of serious crime, including homicide and aggravated assault.
“Overall crime is down 10% compared to last year and you may remember last year we set a record with a pretty big one-year drop in crime, a 33% drop,” SEPTA Police Chief Charles Lawson told KYW Newsradio…