{"id":411473,"date":"2026-07-25T00:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411473\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T00:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:56:09","slug":"the-fight-over-metro-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411473\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fight Over Metro Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>           A volunteer coalition of Metro riders called Enforce the Fares says the biggest safety problem on L.A.\u2019s buses and trains isn\u2019t a shortage of security officers, it\u2019s that almost no one checks whether you paid.        <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Tom Carroll\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/tom-carroll\" data-click=\"enhancedBylineAuthorImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Tom Carroll. (Ricardo DeAratanha \/ Los Angeles Times)\"   width=\"130\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765586108_694_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>  <\/a>      July 24, 2026 5:19 PM PT                           <\/p>\n<p> Share via     Close extra sharing options  <\/p>\n<p>Metro, the agency that runs most buses and light rail in L.A. County, says it\u2019s tackling fare evasion in a different way. Both sides want a safer system. The question is which approach actually works.<\/p>\n<p>               <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Tom Carroll\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/tom-carroll\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765586108_694_\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Tom Carroll is a content creator for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2022, he created, produced and hosted the web series \u201c<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/tomexploresla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tom Explores Los Angeles<\/a>.\u201d He has produced stories for NPR and Gimlet. A fourth-generation Southern Californian, he is a graduate of Occidental College and the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A volunteer coalition of Metro riders called Enforce the Fares says the biggest safety problem on L.A.\u2019s buses&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[164782,30623,164781,156897,164783,2196,2303,48,52,51,5538,47,50,49,63,164780,164779,164785,14398,22238,164784],"class_list":["post-411473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-big-safety-problem","tag-bus","tag-enforce","tag-fare-evasion","tag-fares","tag-fight","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-light-rail","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-metro-rider","tag-metro-safety","tag-security-officer","tag-shortage","tag-train","tag-volunteer-coalition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}