Actually... Wrote:
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> Uncommon Sense Wrote:
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> > There were 640 cases of theft in 2013, that's
> up
> > from 490 cases in 2012. I'd call that a "spike"
> in
> > theft.
>
> Get some sort of clue, dude. The worthless media
> trash (at WTOP, this time) were hyping CELL PHONE
> thefts and some imagined need for Metro riders to
> take actual action as the result. This is a
> complete farce. Meanwhile, you can't manage to
> pull the proper data and don't understand that
> marginal differences in rates that are on the
> order of one chance in 400,000 to begin with are
> not spikes. They are a part of normal variation
> over time. The effective rate of theft of
> anything at all in Metro is still almost exactly
> zero. And note that the also uncommon theft of
> tablets, iPods and handbags all went down in 2013.
> Was that mentioned in the article? In fact,
> thefts of cell phones declined as well, didn't
> they -- it was only iPhones that increased. Both
> the source and the consumer here are failing at
> their jobs miserably.
You're right, we should just pretend there's no crime right? Typical Obama-Liberal supporter.
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