Ride Metro at Your Own Risk - Transit Police Fail to Document and Investigate Thousands of Crimes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People trying to change the subject to be about roads or AirBnB are doing a massive disservice to this major issue and ultimately you are only undermining faith in the transit system you are misguidedly defending by not holding it accountable. Thankfully you are basically alone in minimizing the problem, which is why you are doing so anonymously here.

People trying to claim that Metro is uniquely awful are doing a major disservice to the truth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only those who are professionally shocked at everything are shocked at this. The Metro is a gigantic jobs program for DC residents. It's a dysfunctional entity to move feds around. My office pre-COVID started offering discounted parking just to get people to work in some semblance of on-time.

...or who haven't been paying attention to how WMATA employees can't be bothered to do any aspect of their jobs with any degree of diligence or customer service--you know, like safety inspections, directing customers to restrooms, general service at station kiosks, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The sexual assault numbers are grossly inflated because probably 95% of it is just groups of male teens running around playing “grab-ass”, tapping women on their butts on a dare from their friends. That’s just kids being kids. It hardly qualifies as a “sexual assault” in their community.

I am assuming that this is written by someone that works at WMATA, because it perfectly reflects their attitude and official stance about keeping women safe in their system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The sexual assault numbers are grossly inflated because probably 95% of it is just groups of male teens running around playing “grab-ass”, tapping women on their butts on a dare from their friends. That’s just kids being kids. It hardly qualifies as a “sexual assault” in their community.

So I will agree that a tap on the butt is different from more intense assaults, but it is absolutely unacceptable public behavior, is assault from a legal standpoint, and is a matter of public safety, no matter what their "community" says. Gross and offensive. Oh and by the way, what "community" thinks it's OK for boys/men to behave this way?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People trying to change the subject to be about roads or AirBnB are doing a massive disservice to this major issue and ultimately you are only undermining faith in the transit system you are misguidedly defending by not holding it accountable. Thankfully you are basically alone in minimizing the problem, which is why you are doing so anonymously here.

People trying to claim that Metro is uniquely awful are doing a major disservice to the truth.

Engaging in whataboutism is a distraction from the dealing with the truth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The sexual assault numbers are grossly inflated because probably 95% of it is just groups of male teens running around playing “grab-ass”, tapping women on their butts on a dare from their friends. That’s just kids being kids. It hardly qualifies as a “sexual assault” in their community.

I am assuming that this is written by someone that works at WMATA, because it perfectly reflects their attitude and official stance about keeping women safe in their system.

Unbelievable!!!

Perhaps a woman in a position of leadership there might bring a slightly different perspective to the table.

[Anonymous]

Transit Police is the lowest bar of law enforcement. The worst. Do not expect help or bother with reporting anything to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The sexual assault numbers are grossly inflated because probably 95% of it is just groups of male teens running around playing “grab-ass”, tapping women on their butts on a dare from their friends. That’s just kids being kids. It hardly qualifies as a “sexual assault” in their community.

So I will agree that a tap on the butt is different from more intense assaults, but it is absolutely unacceptable public behavior, is assault from a legal standpoint, and is a matter of public safety, no matter what their "community" says. Gross and offensive. Oh and by the way, what "community" thinks it's OK for boys/men to behave this way?

You can disagree with reality as much as you want.

But reality doesn’t care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The sexual assault numbers are grossly inflated because probably 95% of it is just groups of male teens running around playing “grab-ass”, tapping women on their butts on a dare from their friends. That’s just kids being kids. It hardly qualifies as a “sexual assault” in their community.

So I will agree that a tap on the butt is different from more intense assaults, but it is absolutely unacceptable public behavior, is assault from a legal standpoint, and is a matter of public safety, no matter what their "community" says. Gross and offensive. Oh and by the way, what "community" thinks it's OK for boys/men to behave this way?

You can disagree with reality as much as you want.

But reality doesn’t care.

Probably the same troll as on the other threads. Yawn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The sexual assault numbers are grossly inflated because probably 95% of it is just groups of male teens running around playing “grab-ass”, tapping women on their butts on a dare from their friends. That’s just kids being kids. It hardly qualifies as a “sexual assault” in their community.

I am assuming that this is written by someone that works at WMATA, because it perfectly reflects their attitude and official stance about keeping women safe in their system.

Unbelievable!!!

Perhaps a woman in a position of leadership there might bring a slightly different perspective to the table.

I had no idea that ass grabbing was decriminalized on metro. Did that happen after covid or something? I never witnessed it during pre-covid rush hour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People trying to change the subject to be about roads or AirBnB are doing a massive disservice to this major issue and ultimately you are only undermining faith in the transit system you are misguidedly defending by not holding it accountable. Thankfully you are basically alone in minimizing the problem, which is why you are doing so anonymously here.

The WMATA shill who is trying to derail the discussion isn't fooling anyone. Bottom line is that WMATA needs to shape up before people are willing to spend their own money on it. Unfortunately, it seems like the existing management don't have any incentive to improve.

[Anonymous]

So what's the alternative? Can you file a claim with "real" police, or does WMATA police have sole jurisdiction?

[Anonymous]

If you simply eliminated metro police, there would be far fewer crimes reported, which would then show a major reduction in crime. In this case, defunding the police would be proven to be a major reducing factor in crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:


So what's the alternative? Can you file a claim with "real" police, or does WMATA police have sole jurisdiction?

If the crime occurred in the Metro system, it is their jurisdiction unfortunately.

[Anonymous]

You see the movie death wish, good history lesson what DC needs to keep the BLM thugs in check