joining us live to talk about what they've learned is news editor for the standard annie gauss. back to the show. >> thanks for having me. >> what is the upshot, the main headline for assaults on uni-? >> reports of assaults jumped considerably throughout the pandemic. sf mta maintains a dashboard on their website in the hopes of educating the public about how safe it is to ride. and the public dashboard indicates that assaults spiked considerably between 2020 and 2021. an increase of 74 to 186. there was a reporting change that included battery as well as aggravated assault. so there is some new wants to the data. put reports of aggravated assault and battery assault increased even as ridership was diminished. >> so they did put a couple of new things into the bucket that they consider assault. but even when you take those out and account for those, assaults are still running higher. any idea why? are there motives that they looked at? and who is being attacked? drivers, passengers? >> they did a breakdown of drivers versus passengers. and i spoke to someone who offered thought