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Originally Posted by BrownTown
Sure, but look at Canada's murder rate and then compare it to US inner cities. Homicide rates in cities like New Orleans or Detroit are at similar levels to counties in anarchy like Somalia, not to a first world country. The murder rates in these cities are 30x that of Canada. It's fucking amazing you can feel safe riding transit where you live, but the same simply isn't true for a lot of cities in the US and that's not racism talking, it's cold hard facts. Let's not forget that one of the big reasons that the US suburbs grew so much is because the inner cities became drug and murder infested hellscapes that nobody with any common sense would want to live in unless they simply couldn't afford to leave. The crime rates in the US are actually way DOWN from 1980s levels, but they're still shockingly high by first world standards and a lot of that crime is very concentrated in the inner cities. Let's see your shiny white Canadian self get out at the PATCO City Hall station in Camden late at night for instance and see how safe you feel.
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This has to be the root cause of it. Even in the Bay Area, typically one of the less violent and segregated American cities, you often hear about people getting robbed, stabbed or shot on trains or at train stations. I get the train every day to work here in Sydney and out to party on the weekends (yes I also have a car at home) and despite the presence of drunk idiots on a friday and saturday night we just don't have this 'transit=danger' thought process that clearly is well-established in America.