A "Safe Haven" No More

Well, there goes the notion that Amtrak trains are a "safe haven" from violent crime:

TV Station KCTV

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INDEPENDENCE, MO (KCTV) — One person is dead following a shooting on a train, according to Independence police.

The shooting happened late Friday evening.

The body was found when the train stopped at the Amtrak location on Pacific Avenue in Independence

What notion of safe haven is that? This is far from the first such incident on an Amtrak train.

Mr. Moore, I kmow of the Naperville incident, which occurred on the station platform. If others, to me it appears the parties in intetest have been able to "keep 'em on the QT".

Gilbert B Norman wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 5:26 pm Well, there goes the notion that Amtrak trains are a "safe haven" from violent crime:

TV Station KCTV

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INDEPENDENCE, MO (KCTV) — One person is dead following a shooting on a train, according to Independence police.

The shooting happened late Friday evening.

The body was found when the train stopped at the Amtrak location on Pacific Avenue in Independence

We still don't know if the shooter and victim knew each other.
Plus, statistically, it's still safe.

Safe Haven, please man.

This was also onboard.


https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/lo ... 029062001/

Gilbert B Norman wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 5:26 pm Well, there goes the notion that Amtrak trains are a "safe haven" from violent crime:

TV Station KCTV

Fair Use:

INDEPENDENCE, MO (KCTV) — One person is dead following a shooting on a train, according to Independence police.

The shooting happened late Friday evening.

The body was found when the train stopped at the Amtrak location on Pacific Avenue in Independence

You forgot about this one, posted Oct 4, 2021: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/04/10431888 ... a-shooting

A Drug Enforcement Administration special agent was killed Monday when a passenger, who also died, opened fire as officers were doing a routine inspection for illegal contraband on an Amtrak train in Tucson, Arizona, authorities said. A second agent and a Tucson police officer were wounded.

We talked about it back then too...

Ok, I stand corrected insofar as Tucson. It appears I was mistaken when I thought that incident occurred on the station platform in a manner like Naperville.

Finally, I accept Mr. Scratchy's point; Amtrak trains are relatively safe from violent crime and did not mean to infer that they were down at the level of municipal mass transit.