{"id":22406,"date":"2011-02-25T15:10:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T19:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22406"},"modified":"2011-02-25T15:10:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T19:10:50","slug":"youth-crime-rising-on-washingtons-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22406","title":{"rendered":"Youth Crime Rising on Washington’s Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"

A workmate sent us this link to a Washington Post story<\/a> about the Washington Metro Transit Authority changing the student passes on trains and buses to ID the users in order to lower the crime rate on trains and buses;<\/p>\n

The transit authority is trying to reverse a rising incidence of crime on its sprawling rail and bus network, authorities said.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, our young people are running in groups, and they are taking advantage of people,” Transit Police Chief Michael Taborn said. He discussed the plan Thursday during a meeting of Metro’s board of directors. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know how that’ll help much. My solution to their crime problem is to sell off the Transit cops’ SUVs and make them get on the platforms and trains to provide a deterrence to the crime wave. <\/p>\n

I know it’s like I’m ignorant, but I just don’t see the value of having a police force called “transit police” that all ride around from Dunkin’ Donuts to Popeye’s chicken joints to 7-11 for their whole shift in their big, fancy SUVs. I rode the Metro at peak hours for a decade and I’ll wager I saw cops on the trains and platforms (through DC’s northeast quadrant) four times.<\/p>\n

The key to good policing is actually acting like you’re the police.<\/p>\n

Of course, that doesn’t absolve parents of their responsibility to make their kids come home, either. The reason kids are wandering around in felonious packs is largely the fault of parents, but if Metro is trying to do something, kick those cops out on their beats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A workmate sent us this link to a Washington Post story about the Washington Metro Transit … Youth Crime Rising on Washington’s Metro<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}