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Coggs362 t1_j9uuhbb wrote

Reply to comment by DumbshitOnTheRight in What does the Transit Police do? by PresidentBush2

Yes, and.

Last month a traveler got stabbed in South Station men's room. So sometimes their presence is justified. Normally not a fan of the MBTA police, otherwise.

Not sure why you got the downvotes.

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Anustart15 t1_j9v5mg5 wrote

>Not sure why you got the downvotes.

Probably from people that have been harassed by the problem homeless that they would have loved to have already had been removed by transit police

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Coggs362 t1_j9v6khx wrote

Fair enough. Like I was explaining to an irate fellow commuter couple months back about that - this is the symptoms of a society that allowed the Opioid Crisis, and didn't place a serious commitment to mental health. (obviously there's a whole cocktail of contributing factors, but those seem the top two).

I deal with the homeless pretty much daily coming and going through there. I don't like it anymore than anyone else.

It's a goddamn shame, but the real solutions apparently are out of reach of our state and city officials, no?

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jojenns t1_j9vgvmz wrote

So in the interim what do you want T police to do with the homeless who are harassing people?

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