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By the Numbers: Metro's Robbery Rates

ALTHOUGH METRO reports that crime levels throughout the transit system are low, customers clearly are not immune to robberies and other crime. In fact, the transit agency reported a nearly 18-percent increase in robberies in 2007. As The Post's Lena H. Sun reports:

Metro's increase reflects spikes elsewhere in the region. Robberies in 2007 increased in Fairfax County and the District but decreased in Prince George's County, data show. In Montgomery County, robberies between January and September 2007 declined 12.7 percent, but final figures for the year haven't been counted.
The spike prompted the Metro Transit Police Department to start a special robbery unit to target high-crime areas late last year.

Let's take a look at the robbery rates, by the numbers ...

» 414: The number of robberies that riders reported in 2007.
» 352: The number of robberies reported by riders in 2006.
» 58: The number of portable music players, mainly iPods, reported stolen in 2007.
» 59: The number of cell phones reported stolen in 2007.

» 343 million: The number of Metro customers in 2007.

» "Robberies Spike 17.6% in 2007" [WaPo]
» "Crime Prevention Tips" [WMATA]

» EARLIER: "Teens Arrested in Carjacking at Greenbelt Metro" [Free Ride/Express]

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