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Politically Incorrect Statistics - Does Public-Transit Result in a Crime Boom? (nytimes.com)
2 points by sidsavara on Oct 23, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Public transit is not the problem here, bored teenagers with bad values are.

And could we cut it out with the blind use of 'Politically Incorrect'? It's a usage that degrades the intelligence of everyone who sees it; it's an emotionally loaded term that brings a raft of irrelevant anger with it.


It sounds like this isn't a crime boom so much as a crime redistribution. Instead of ripping off their local 7-11, bored urban teens are going for higher-value goods from suburban malls up the line.




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