Metro’s blogger, Mary Sit, has wasted no time in mischaracterizing, omitting and ignoring relevant facts about the transit authority’s security problem:
When the security guards were pulled about two years ago, 18 Park & Ride lots were covered from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. It cost $1.25 million a year.
The incidents of property crimes – mainly auto thefts and auto break-ins - totaled 126 in fiscal year 2003, ending Sept. 30 and 134 incidents in fiscal year 2004.
The crime rate has crept up – but the city ‘s population has also surged as has its crime rate.
The guards were removed in early 2005, so why not post 2005 and 2006 crime statistics so we can compare? Here’s why, according to KHOU:
For the last fiscal year, thefts went up 16-percent. The incease in robberies was even more alarming.
They skyrocketed by 400-percent compared to the fiscal year before.
Add it all up and crimes at bus stops, along the light rail and at Park & Rides were up 32-percent in the last year.
Got that? An increase of 32 percent means crime has “crept up,” according to Sit. But an increase of about 7 percent means the population has “surged.”
I thought maybe the launch of Metro’s blog would result in more honesty and transparency from our beloved transit authority. Looks like I was wrong.
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Did Sit address what METRO is going to do about the invasion of armed drug thugs from Mexico over our border?
Armed Mexican drug smugglers approached the security guards and they retreated to a handicapped bus and haven’t been heard from since.
In Ms. Sit’s defense, the “surge” is in overall Houston population growth while the “crept up” was the proportion of Metro crime also to “overall Houston population”. Using the same denominators can easily distort the numbers or as the liberals like to call it—”Fuzzy Math”.
I need to be careful, or Squawk is going to ban me.
Is there any truth to the rumor that the next Metro line will go to the border to faciliate the transportation of illegal aliens and drugs to Houston and will it be called the “Houston Corridor”??????
Just retreat to your vehicle and you’ll be ok…..
Matt
You didn’t really believe that the blog would result in more honesty and transparency from METRO?
The METRO blog is all about propaganda, METRO is the answer to all of your transportation problems.
David Benzion
Didn’t you listen to EricPJohnson and Sargevining? There was no Invasion of armed anybody from Mexico.
We can get banned together.
#5 Robert
The Governor already has that one covered with Trans Texas Corridor. METRO would just be unwanted competition.
Didn’t Metro float some sort of bond which was stated to cover the human security at the lots? And after the bond passed, they switched tunes? I seem to remember something along those lines.
Robert,
#5
Actually, the rumor is that the road to Hell is too congested so METRO will float Billions-and-Billions in bonds to have Seimens build more boondoggle Light Rail!
Relax. METRO’s come up with a solution:
http://metro.isfullofcrap.com/2007/01/metro_announces_remote_camera.html
You don’t see Achmed Yassin or Abdel Rantisi jacking cars anymore, do you?
Matt, Pleeeeze, you didn’t really expect truth from Metro did you? The con is on, now they have more ways to infiltrate our thinking.
Math by Metro
I’m sorry, it should be:
Math by Metro™