Creighton Rabs

Sun, 27 Aug 2006 04:26:54 -0500

Of course SEPTA is going to screw this up. Remember, this is the same department of "rent-a-cops" who actually stored a suspected suspicious device found at Powelton Rail Yards a couple years ago for a week at an unsecured locker before notifying the feds. Truth be told, the only reason half of these clowns are even employed by SEPTA is because PPD probably wouldn't hire them. Out of all the transit systems I've riden post-9/11, SEPTA's "Transit Police" is, hands down, one of the least pro-active departments out there. The brass at 1234 Market doesn't care about safety, and that attitude seems to filter down to the rank-and-file. SEPTA "Transit Police" seems more concerned about becoming mass transit's equivelent of a James Bond flick to actually care that there have been at least 3 or 4 violent assaults on the subways over the past year, at least two of which were fatal (the incident at the subway-surface station near the Penn campus and the Olney shooting). That's not counting the two attempted rapes that occured in the past 12 months. By contrast, the Washington Metro has reported 0 - repeat, 0 - homicides since at least 2004 (last reported murder was 2003, unknown date). Yet, when SEPTA claims that "crime has decreased 90 percent since 1990" none of the Rotating Resumes at 1234 Market are willing to provide statistical data to back that claim up. Oh, sure, we'll brief the board about crime data, but we just won't tell the public the truth. Typical SEPTA bullshit... And, to top it all off, SEPTA's answer to "Bagdhad Bob" Richard Maloney claims that there's no major surge in violent crime. Nah, he wouldn't know, he's too busy either riding the relatively safer Regional Rail system or getting driven to 40th St from 69th St Terminal in a "Transit Police" car during a recent long-term El shutdown... Perhaps instead of tokens and TransPasses, SEPTA riders may want to start bringing bodyguards and/or body armor when commuting...

James

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:33:26 -0500

Yes, we all know that they are going to f*ck this up in their normal pathetic way even though it is New York that these evil terrorists are going after. You would expect an actual competent police force like the one in New York to get some of these, if they maybe actually worked. There has to be some kickbacks somewhere, as normal Philadelphia procedure.

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James