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Just looking at which stop has the most reported crimes is not a good way to analyse tri-mets data. Gateway has more than 10000 boardings and deboardings on the max alone each weekday. Some bus stops have orders of magnitude fewer users so the fact that gateway has the most crime needs to be looked at in the context of that stop also being one of the busiest.
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@econoline, I agree -- Portland Afoot is working on a boarding-adjusted figure to update the statistics Sarah (kindly) links to.
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I went to the Bullwinkle Fun Center in Wilsonville a couple weeks ago (SKEEBALL CHAMPION 4 LYFE) and noticed that in the parking lot, they were playing Michael Bolton loudly on the speakers. I think it works incredibly well as a deterrent for teenagers trying to look cool while smoking cigarettes and otherwise getting into trouble; I imagine it also works well on the MAX.

Though it may fail if you've got criminals looking for an operatic soundtrack to their crime sprees.
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If they really want to test this theory, they should play the There Will Be Blood score on the Max and see if crime goes up. Or if people start drinking each other's milkshakes.

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