You'd think the T would put those camera-equipped buses in high-crime areas, wouldn't you?
By adamg - Fri, 04/13/2007 - 8:39am.
When you read stuff like this, your assumption would be that the first places to get MBTA buses with surveillance cameras would be neighborhoods where, oh, people get shot on T buses.
But hey, this is the T, so of course, the bulk of the first wave of camera-equipped buses will be assigned to the Charlestown garage, which provides service to places such as Lexington, Belmont and Burlington. Props to Demredox on Blue Mass. Group for piecing this together.
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Come, now...
You can't put these fancy buses in such dangerous neighborhoods. Why, they'd probably get stolen! Then what use would the camera bus be?
Racist
You are racist.
Follow this logic.
Violent crime happens more often in lower-income neighborhoods.
Lower-income neighborhoods have a higher percentage of people of color.
You suggest putting the cameras on buses in these neighborhoods over those neighborhoods with higher percentages of white people.
You are racist.
Adam, why do you hate people of color?
Response to troll
To be totally fair, some of these bus lines do go through low-income areas: Rindge Towers and Jefferson Park in North Cambridge, 'Area Four' near MIT, Mystic View in Somerville, East Somerville, Clarendon Hill Towers and North Street in West Somerville, and much of Chelsea.
But for the most part, these areas aren't known for the kind of violent crime that has lately invaded parts of Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan.
No, YOU are a racist.
Follow the "logic".
Violent crime happens more often in lower-income neighborhoods.
Lower-income neighborhoods have a higher percentage of people of color.
You suggest putting the cameras on buses in neighborhoods with higher percentages of white people over these neighborhoods, denying the people in these neighborhoods protection against violent crime.
You are a racist.
John, why do you hate people of color?
there were at least couple
there were at least couple of the camera-equipped buses running out of the Charlestown garage a week or two before the big rash of violence that included the shooting on the 23 bus.
I recall it quite clearly. I was (and remain) a peeved that the MBTA's need to surveil everyone at all times had begun to creep into my bus commute and not just following my every move at the subway stations.