Sorry , but there needs to be more thoughtful statistics than this to make me think my money is being well spent , paying the salaries of the transit cops
1 Ask only the people who travel during the non peak hours whether they feel safer - as it's then that your average lowlife criminal is most apt to be active
2 Show me how many criminal activities have been broken up because of the presence or intravention of these transit cops . Show this number as something like " the number of muggings per week has reduced from x to y over the last year"

3 show many criminal arrests have been made over the last year .

4 show me that the number of criminal arrests is declining - as this will prove that the bad guys are going elsewhere to do their business

I saw Transit Security writing fare evasion tickets on Main Street yesterday on the bus. Last week I saw transit security and transit police working together doing fare checks on the bus.