DENVER - A simple change in strategy for Denver's Regional Transportation District, appears to be working.

After years of growing complaints about safety and security on public trains and buses, RTD data shows criminal incident reports have been trending downward, at their lowest point in July.

RTD publishes much of their statistics online . The following is data from 2025 so far.

In 2023, Denver7 Investigates went undercover to see the scope of the problem and found people doing drugs in plain sight. Regular riders told us, they saw drug use daily.

In the summer of 2025, riders may now notice a few more people on board light rail trains.

"A lot of security officers and police officers were on more static posts, they were just at a location, but they weren't getting on our vehicles,

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