Watch your wallet when dining out during these desperate times. A pickpocket allegedly helped themselves to a billfold belonging to a restaurant patron at Bethesda Row on Sunday morning, April 12, 2026. The theft was reported to Montgomery County police at 11:45 AM at a restaurant in the 7100 block of Bethesda Lane. Remember to carry your wallet in a front pocket if possible, and beware of accomplices who may try to distract you by engaging you in conversation or pretending to bump into you.
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And it's only going to get worse once the "P(ickpocket)urple" line opens
Ahhhhh, Summertime (Actually Spring) and the living is easy, thieves thieving and the probability is high ..
Do you actually think the bad people are lining up at the stations for the train to start running? They do have cars and other transportation.
Criminally-minded bums will come from their homes in PG county to Bethesda, where there's more money to steal
@6:20 wake up a take a look at some the characters already hanging around the PL tunnel near Wayne Ave & Sligo Creek Pkwy. They don't have cars but surely could bring some back after their adventures in Bethesda.
Social media is changing the dynamics of crime into a group sport. We're getting inoculated by outrageous political groups that have morphed into acceptance of group crime. Certain organizations have mixed them so well together. The PL will be a conduit.
@6:20 PM Plenty of unsuspecting riders hence easy targets of opportunity. . .
Bethesda Lane aka Rodeo Drive, watch out for the stones and stoners.
Do you really believe that anyone really accepts criminal activity? Of course everybody, other than criminals, wants to reduce it and increase safety. We already have a heavy rail system, numerous bus lines and a fledging BRT system that already connects folks from all over the DMV. But you seem to believe a light rail system will change everything and flood the area with criminals that before the PL had no knowledge or means to get to Bethesda. Many still believe that enhanced public transit is a good way to empower folks to improve their lot in life.
@7:06 Seriously, give it a rest as you already lost this argument and even though you're still being paid for copy, lying over and over doesn't make it more credible.
All of the pearl clutchers above are a real hoot! The perps ya'll describe can't afford to ride the P-train, they need every dime the flitch, besides, time waiting, cameras watching, are deterrents to their activities. Ya'll have even less brainpower than the Orange Jesus.
At least the trifling perp is not at the Arlington Rd Giant!
6:34 AM As much as you seem to think that I am a paid shill for MoCo, this simply isn’t true. I have never worked for the county, but I do have quite a bit of experience designing transit stations and transit-oriented design.
I am just expressing my personal opinion about mass transit and how i believe it does not increase crime, but in fact helps to improve opportunities for everyone. You seem to be the one who needs to stop your unproven false claims that transit and crime are inexplicably linked. I have already posted links to several studies that show that extending transit into wealthy areas does not have a measurable impact on crime. Please stop your fear mongering about the PL.
2:16, if you're the same poster from before, citing those studies mired in cooked up raw data, I'm hoping you've found better, bona fide data and reports. There is simply no way transportation doesn't facilitate crime, anywhere, anytime. It's absurd to think otherwise.
Beliefs and opinions don't survive without facts and you feel the former outweighs the latter. This is classic liberal BS so you guys can congratulate each other for good intentions while results mean nothing. I would welcome the PL if you guys would start enforcing existing laws and didn't blow through 10B dollars on a 1B dollar project. This is a failure of local & state government and your simply a paid cheerleader. Have you looked at the MD budget deficit lately? Of course not because admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery, (bet you've heard those words before). There is no fear mongering in realityville, only historical data but you guys don't live anywhere close.
If your paycheck ultimately can be traced to taxpayers through transit subsidies or NGO grants, then you are a government employee. Designing transit stations is government work, unless it is an entirely privately funded venture (which has not happened in the US in over a century)
"My personal opinion" "I believe it does not increase crime" - how nice. And when crime does increase, what will you say then? "I believe my fellow man doesn't want to go into wealthy areas to steal when he can steal at home". You gotta think this through. Or not.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/jpt/vol6/iss3/5/
This study finds that transit does not increase crime. Light rail in LA connecting a high crime area to an affluent area.
https://crim.sas.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/2015-14.0_Ridgeway_MacDonald_RailEffect%281%29.pdf
A very good article in Bloomberg that covers many sides of the crime-train-trope issue. The conclusion seems to be similar to my comments that enhanced mass transit has many benefits that outweigh people’s fears about criminal access to wealth areas.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-07/tracking-the-history-of-public-transit-s-crime-train-trope
Hilarious and you can cite all the sponsored studies you want. Here's one you should try and refute. Releasing repeat offenders and handing shoplifters the equivalent of a speeding ticket is the reason why we have the problems we have now. The PL will attract those who won't be punished.
Wow, CA is the poster child false statistics and mass taxpayer exodus but good on you for keeping the lies alive. Liberals can't govern and only seek to rule. How's Karen Bass working out after the Palisades fire? Competent leadership would have the entire neighborhood finished last year.
The big problem now are the CA refugees moving to red states and voting for the same thing that ruined where they came from in the first place. You guys are like roaches and you're busy wrecking BCC with your soft-on-crime policies.
One measure that may decrease crime brought by the Pipe Line would be 'robust' video both at the stations and on the cars. Bethesda victims could better pick out the perps and the po po could better determine where they alighted. Of course, our po po and prosecutors would have to 'get onboard' with this which is unlikely or an impossible request.
2:02 believe what you will, we all know this will be yet another 'I told you so,' and you and your ilk won't learn anything.
2:16 "....but I do have quite a bit of experience designing transit stations and transit-oriented design.'
Of course you promote such travel and big (wasteful) projects! Busted!
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