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Originally Posted by Crawford
Ridership on LA trains soared in 2022 relative to 2021. It makes sense that crime would rise.
And this has nothing to do with the claim. What does "there are junkies and homeless on trains and there weren't before" have to do with "violent crime on trains is higher in 2022 than 2021"? Nothing.
2021 and 2022 were both pandemic years, not the beforetimes. A bum sleeping on a bench or a herion addict nodding off generally aren't committing violent crimes.
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The point is that you and Craigs keep trying to push this narrative that crime isn't up on public transit post Covid, when it is. The numbers clearly show this.
And as I said before, this is *one* factor that is impacting people's decisions to take public transit.
Personally, I think in the long run, this is a short term trend. Cities will have to start making hard choices to rein crime in, and many younger folks (at least here in Chicago) seem to enjoy being in the city, so I suspect things will equalize out in the long run.