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[quote user="Phoebe Vet"] Crime is everywhere, that is why we hire policemen. Pizza delivery drivers get robbed, banks get robbed, convenience stores get robbed, automobile drivers get carjacked, taxicab drivers get robbed,  shoppers get robbed in shopping mall parking lots, in Kansas in 2009, a doctor was murdered as he sat in a pew in church.  We don't try to use that crime as an excuse to eliminate any of those. So why should we use the occasional transit crime as an excuse to eliminate mass transit? [/quote] I don't recall anyone suggesting that we should eliminate public transit because it has a tendency, at least in some locations, to attract crime.  This has been true everywhere that I have lived that had a large public transit system, e.g. New York, Melbourne, Dallas, and Austin (area).  The problem is not just crime.  It is also unruly behavior, which occurs frequently in Dallas.  School kids board the trains in the afternoon. I have seen some of them swinging from the straps whilst others have spilled forth a litany of four letter words that would have caused my Marine Corps drill instructor to blanch.    Users as well as public transit management need to know that some modes of public transit are more prone to crime.  And that it occurs more frequently in certain neighborhoods and at certains times of the day.  They need to plan for it. Management needs to be aware of the impact of crime on the rider's and potential rider's perception of the safety of public transit.  It needs to put the appropriate controls in place to reduce the probability of a criminal incident.   Criminal incidents at 7-11, mall parking lots, etc., have nothing to do with a person's perception of the safety of using public transit.  The question is whether they feel safe on a bus or train.  And in this case it applies to Dallas, which was the root source of the article.
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