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Speaker 1: Suffolk Democrat Nick Collins calls the statistics collected by the

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Speaker 1: t's Transit Worker Assault Task Force startling.

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Speaker 2: Show that attacks against transit employees have tripled since two

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Speaker 2: thousand and eight, with six hundred and thirty four incidents

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Speaker 2: reported in twenty twenty four alone.

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Speaker 1: This is a bill that brings harsher punishments in line

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Speaker 1: with heightened protections for other public workers.

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Speaker 2: Offenders may face jail time ranging from ninety days to

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Speaker 2: two and a half years, defined between five hundred dollars

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Speaker 2: and five thousand due to amendments.

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Speaker 1: The bill goes back to the House now, but lawmakers

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Speaker 1: there have already passed a version of this unanimously, so

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Speaker 1: it's likely to make it to the governor's desk. Most

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Speaker 1: research does show that harsher sentences do little to deter crime.

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Speaker 1: Madison Rogers w b Z, Boston's news radio