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Originally Posted by LAsam
To be fair... it's not like the violence is all that infrequent recently:
https://www.foxla.com/news/timeline-metro-transit-violent-incidents
Metro violence: Timeline of recent incidents
- April 22: A deadly stabbing on the B-line in Universal City.
- May 7: A security guard was stabbed and a suspect was shot and killed in East Hollywood.
- May 13: A fight on a Metro bus led to a stabbing in Glendale.
- May 13: A woman was stabbed at a Metro station in South LA.
- May 14: A bus passenger was beaten and robbed in Encino.
- May 17: A Metro bus passenger was shot and killed in Commerce.
- May 21: A Metro bus passenger was stabbed in Lynwood.
Not wishing to further hijack this photo thread... but the unfortunate reality is that there is a problem right now with violence on the Metro system that needs to be addressed. |
On average, passengers take some 967,548 weekday trips on Metro; that falls to 675,000 riders on Saturdays and 555,000 on Sundays. Add up all of the trips taken over the 30 days included in your completely gratuitous crime list, divide by those seven crimes, and the serious crime rate is going to be pretty low. This is all about the perception of a post-apocalyptic Metro, fed by a media that wants profit from building that perception--and you are also feeding it.
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