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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Violent crime is actually on a decades long decline.  Media loves to sensationalize and that leads to the perception that it is growing. [/quote]

Sadly, that long term trend is reversing. I believe that a lot of the long decline was the result of demographic trends that are no longer pointing in a favorable direction. (For example, an increasing number of young men are not on track to full time employment at an income that can support 1/2 of the rent on an apartment in the city where they live.)

The lazy attitude that things are better than they were 20 years ago will ensure that crime will continue to creep up. Broad social action is required (figuring out how to match up our young people with the employment demands of the workplace) as well as specific tactics to address crime on the metro (actually reporting the crimes is a start, hi-def cameras and strategies to catch the bad guys and educating riders to reduce property crimes of opportunity)

Dismissing the experience of the victims and excusing the behavior of the perpetrators is embarrassing.[/quote]

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