[PRCo] Re: Crime in the Big Cities

[Herb Brannon]

Cleveland's rail services are very safe to ride. The only thing I ever remember happening on the rail system was a 'middle of the night' holdup of the few passengers on a Red Line heavy rail rapid transit train. That was seven years ago. Our whole system now uses high technology survallaince systems almost to a fault. Between the advanced communications systems on cars, trains and buses, cameras, unseen metal detectors, large toothed German Shepherd police dogs (six on the Transit Police now), Transit Police in general, public telephone monitoring (yes, public telephone) equipment, fail-safe employee entry badges and God knows what else, it is unlikely that anything of a criminal nature would not attract the attention of the police before it got out of hand. Most of this high tech equipment has been installed since 9/11/2001 with US Govt money grants for these projects. Anyone know what PATransit uses?
Jerry Matt Matsick <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net> wrote:  Herb - Orlando's crime numbers come from the thousands of tourists that are reporting crimes in to the authorities, no so much from the local's in Orlando, I guess that is true with most tourist destinations.
Also the "bigger" the Amusement Parks get the more lower paid
jobs and also undesirables are moving in, subsequently more
crime.

The reason I posted this "crime" report was what you brought up about the T in Pittsburgh, How safe are the stops
in the cities operating LRV service?

Jerry "Matt" Matsick 
>From Jacksonville 
Where FLORIDA begins!


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> Interesting to note is that this "study" was done by a 'private' group. The 
> study has drawn harsh criticism from the US Government and from The American 
> Society of Criminology for what has been called "an irresponsible misuse of 
> crime data." Orlando, FL, is ranked right beside Cleveland at number 11. I lived 
> in Orlando for five years and never saw or heard of much crime there. I wouldn't 
> put much faith in that report. Was there anything mentioned about any robberies 
> in the Pgh "T" subway or at "T" stations? 
> Jim Holland wrote: Jerry Matt Matsick wrote: 
> > Was wondering which of these "Crime" cities have active Trolley lines? 
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> > Last year's crime leader, St. Louis, fell to No. 2. 
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> Herb Brannon 
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Herb Brannon