Out-of-control shoplifting at the St. Louis Galleria. Violent attacks in the Delmar Loop.

The Riverfront Times ^ | 8-20-2008 | Chad Garrison

[meadsjn]

"Trains take you from where you ain't, to where you don't want to be."

City trains move the gang crime to the suburbs, so more people can share fair.

[Gritty]

Liberals want to move us all out of our cars and onto "public transit". Then we can all enjoy the benefits of multicultural diversity!

[Scarpetta]

Some years ago SEPTA went on strike and buses to the suburban malls stopped running. The King of Prussia mall reported a 75% drop in shoplifting during the strike.

But you can’t profile.

[Drew68]

This is the part I don't understand:

St. Peters alderman Don Aytes remembers well the fears some of his constituents expressed back in 1998, the year MetroLink supporters tried to bring light rail into suburban St. Charles County.

"I thought for sure it would pass, and then someone on the MetroLink campaign made the decision to advertise that the train would connect Mid Rivers Mall with East St. Louis," Aytes recalls. "That pretty much killed it right there. Soon you had people saying MetroLink riders would come to St. Charles by train and leave by car — stolen car."

Ten years later and a growing number of Saint Louis Galleria and Delmar Loop merchants worry that St. Charles voters may have been right: that maybe MetroLink actually enables criminals, especially teenage lawbreakers.

So pretty much the way I understand it was that there was a proposal to link MetroLink from the 'hood to the shopping malls but the people who shopped at the malls were concerned about the crime that this would bring (imagine that) so they voted against the measure. Then the government went ahead and built the link despite the proposal being killed by the voters? Am I reading this right?

[Eagles6]

"But you can’t profile."

It's racist if you notice those things. /sarc

[JillValentine]

Ironic...this is the third time within a few months that I’ve heard of someone named Unique.

For weird names, you can’t beat Sh*thead (pronounced sha-TEED) and A**hole (pronounced ASH-olay). I swear I’m not making these up. These are actual names!

Can you imagine? “This is my son, Sh*thead, and my daughter, A**hole.”

[GladesGuru]

There is a chain of “alternative” newspapers in Florida, and many other states, as well. They are largely Libtard in editorial orientation, and funded by ads for restaurants, bars, tattoo parlors and sex services like phone sex and “escorts”.

Bah! Humbuggery!

[meyer]

I’ve seen this before. Adding regional bus service is what ultimately destroyed Parmatown Mall in Parma, Ohio. The deadbeats ride the taxpayer-funded bus to the mall, rob it, and ride the bus back home.

[GladesGuru]

“The country can’t solve this problem without working of the busted families and rotten education system that cause it.”

With all due respect, I must disagree. Simply by returning to an old and proven method of law enforcement, we could cut prison costs to a mere fraction of their now exorbitant levels, and produce a nation of self regulating citizens.

Bring Back Bounties! Make a dead violent criminal worth the cost of a year's incarceration and crime would drop to a fraction of today's criminal activity..