I believe this 2013 Daily News article by Pete Donahue is worth reading in its entirety.
Although Donahue (his email address) does not mention the NYPD Transit Bureau in this article, if its commander places the interests of the MTA above his duty to investigate suspicious violent deaths that would explain the utterly bizarre occurrence of so-many late night fatal "accidents."
The MTA doesn’t issue an apology when someone is hit by a subway train — and it doesn’t whip out the checkbook, either.
About 90% of the 92 “man-under” lawsuits that were resolved in the last five years ended in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s favor, according to a breakdown by the MTA.I wonder if the MTA lawyers would be that successful without the NYPDs immediate and seemingly automatic conclusion that "criminality is not suspected" in unwitnessed track fatalities.
The MTA didn’t pay a dime in 73 of those cases. It dispensed with another nine cases with paltry go-away payments averaging $40,000, according to the authority’s information. Five big cases did result in payoffs totaling $33 million.
Although Donahue (his email address) does not mention the NYPD Transit Bureau in this article, if its commander places the interests of the MTA above his duty to investigate suspicious violent deaths that would explain the utterly bizarre occurrence of so-many late night fatal "accidents."
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