what is well known and documented in the area
In other words, "see, everyone KNOWS that the River LINE brings crime, what kind of nut are you to deny common sense?!"
And the underlying belief that makes such an argument possible is the notion that mass transit is something only the poor use. Since poor = criminal to many Americans, it's all too easy to just blindly assume that mass transit is going to make it easier for that thug to show up in my quiet suburban neighborhood. And the world will live as one
While Camden is much worse, Trenton was not a low crime area as the poster implied. That page with the 2003 statistics shows all violent crime, as well as burglary and car theft, way above the US national average. For example, in all violent crime, Camden was 4.02 times, Trenton 2.95 times the national average. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
