A woman videotaped a man exposing himself on a Los Angeles light-rail train. Another woman was “savagely beaten” on a New York subway train. A third woman was stabbed to death and her sister hospitalized at a BART station in Oakland.
These attacks received a lot of publicity, but they are just the tip of the iceberg. Riders on the Los Angeles transit system suffer from several major crimes a day — “major” (“part 1” crimes) meaning homocide, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, or car theft — and a slightly smaller number of minor or “part 2” crimes, meaning simple assaults, vandalism, minor sex offenses, and drunk or disorderly conduct.
The good news is that, starting in July 2017, LA Metro increased the police presence on board its trains, which reduced the total number of crimes from about ten per day to about seven. But some serious crimes continued to increase in number.
So what is a transit agency to do? Los Angeles Metro has decided to install full body scanners at all of its subway stations. These scanners are designed to look for assault rifles, explosive vests, and other weapons that have the “ability to inflict mass casualties” — in other words, to prevent acts of terrorism.
Will they identify a man who plans to molest or expose himself to women on the trains? No. Will they identify people who are likely to savagely beat other passengers? No. Will they pick up small knives? Probably not. But they will keep Los Angeles subway passengers safer from terrorists, who as near as I can tell have committed exactly one poorly executed attack on an American transit system since September 11, 2001.
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(There was also an “unsubstantiated bomb threat” on the Washington Metro system earlier this week. It led to the evacuation of one station, but the station soon reopened and trains continued to go through the station, as there are no bypass tracks, while police investigated, so they must not have taken it very seriously.)
Metro is paying $100,000 per body scanner, and it will need at least one at each of 18 stations for a total cost of close to $2 million. More important, it will need police officers to continuously monitor the scanners, which probably means that many fewer officers will be on board the trains preventing other types of crimes.
It seems more likely to the Antiplanner that the problem will solve itself as ridership on the Los Angeles subway is declining rapidly — 13 percent in the last four years — and that decline is likely to accelerate as passengers see police staffing scanners that won’t protect them from 99-plus percent of the crimes that happen on Los Angeles transit every day. Declining patronage, in turn, will discourage even amateur terrorists, like the one who tried to bomb the New York City subway, from making any attempts on Los Angeles transit lines.
In related news, an op-ed in The Hill yesterday argues that increased “subsidies can’t save transit from its death spiral.” While most of the material has been covered here before, it is a succinct overview of the issue.
When government who runs your city, have a political motivation to pander to people who’re dysfunctional, poorly behaved, engage in lewd or self destructive acts, their policies do nothing but foster more dysfunctionality, poor behavior and lewd acts and disavowing self respect and personal dignity. Then your cities problems of the consequences of people who have zero dignity and self respect……only continue to get worse. Even Worse when you indoctrinate the entitlement mentality on those dysfunctional people you embolden them to be angry or violent when they don’t get their way…where does that behavior sound familiar? AMONG CHILDREN. If you subsidize a culture of degeneracy and debasement, you make it attractive for more people. If you turn a blind eye to ejaculating on a train or shitting on the sidewalk, don’t be surprised if people start ejaculating on a train or shitting on sidewalks. YOU’RE GOING TO GET MORE OF IT.
Combine with it an entertainment and urban culture that glorifies drug abuse, illicit activities, gun violence, criminality and abuse against woman and distrust and enmity against law enforcement, DON’T BE SURPRISED when EXACTLY THAT kind of behavior proliferates in your neighborhood when you encourage Children to Enjoy it, the average music star or entertainers career is about 10 years; a long time to indoctrinate your kids into that way of thinking for the rest of their lives.
Funny how the regressive left & you teahadi’s want the exact same damn thing. Despotism! :$