In 2006 Gresham police responded to a number of calls within a quarter mile around the light rail stops in Gresham. These calls include 42 percent of all narcotics calls, 84 percent of all gang calls, and 40 percent of all fight calls.

Anyone with the guts to put a label on which gangs, and which community they belong too.

Didn't Randy Leonard say there were no more Meth houses in Portland...period!

Wanna bet they moved to Gresham.

Can the Gresham mayor take over Portland as well? GOOD POLICE ACTION AND SUPPORT VS SPRAY CAN LOCKDOWNS.

Tom and Randy really scare me, one rides bikes with radical groups, the other has a thing for spray cans.

Sure But Then We wouldn't have all these Broke D**ks a runnin'around causing such consternation amongst the Taxpayers I guess my Question would be Why do we Taxpayers Have
to Foot the bill for redundant services Why don't we just run the Buggers off?

David an Abe:

Careful Tommy "P" will get us all for lack of tolerance.

The other guy mentioned has "better" things to do, after all, as he said..."IT'S NOT MY PROBLEM!"

Hillsboro has had a transit unit since 1998, I think. One of the big problems is that the county jail is at one end of the line. Guess how people get home when they get out or "force released?"

I'm not sure why it took Gresham so long to figure this out.

As a small business owner that pays TriMet taxes and gets little direct benefit for my money; I'm completely appalled at the spin job that B*tch Mary Fetsch posted in today's Boregonian. Nothing like being in complete "denial" that a crime problem exists on MAX. I'm going to write a less than friendly letter to Fred Hansen this week telling him to get off his butt and start doing something serious about collecting fares and dealing with criminals.

I'm going to write a less than friendly letter to Fred Hansen this week telling him to get off his butt and start doing something serious about collecting fares and dealing with criminals.

Great idea Dave..CC Randy Leonard, demanding he ride the train w/o police guarding him, see if you get a response.

Spray can's are NOT the problem on the train.

Better yet ask the "tough guy" to write Fred Hansen the letter, and do more then lock up spray paint.

Know what he will say? "NOT MY PROBLEM!"

Yep, let's tell it like it is: Trimet just does not give a damn about the "crime" problem.

Just the unpleasant atmosphere on MAX, let alone crime is enough to keep me from riding.

And forget about things like rampant fare evsaion.

"Award Winning Transit System," my a*s.

May be we should change Max's East Side line to The Cesar Chavez Line, or the CCL.
After all it seems that the propound of crimes have been commited by peoples of Mexican ancestery.

Posted by John

Careful there John, you will have TOMMY N RANDY after you for your lack of being tolerent.

ALL MUSLIMS AREN'T TERRIOST EITHER..WELL ALMOST ALL OF THEM.

But the ones that are..there safe here!

It's good to hear that some of you guys would never ride on the Max. Fewer sociopaths is better.