Slashdot Mirror
Mozart and Bach Handel Subway Station Crime
Hugh Pickens writes "The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that transit officials have started to get a handel on subway crime when they started playing Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, and Strauss at the Lake Street light-rail station after neighborhood residents complained about the station becoming a haven for rowdy teens and vagrants. 'If it encourages some people to wander away because it's not their favorite type of music, I guess that's OK,' says Acting Transit Police Chief A.J. Olson. The program is modeled after one is Portland that has shown early signs of success, though the numbers are so small as to be statistically insignificant and even supporters of the music haven't reached a consensus on whether such environmental changes actually deter crime or just push it down the block. Not everyone is sold on using 'lovely lovely Ludwig Van' as a deterrent. 'Classical music lovers hate the fact that urban planners use classical music to disperse youth,' says Minneapolis City Council Member Gary Schiff. 'Does it chase crime away?' adds Olson. 'It's hard to measure. But I do think it makes it a more pleasant place to wait for a train.'"
Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, and Strauss - The Gangbusters
"When all you have is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail."
Just moves the crime so its haydn somewhere else.
Maybe it'll make the criminals Bach off.
[FUCK BETA]
It may initially drive them away. But as they are leaving, they warn that they'll be bach.
This space unintentionally left blank.
I woke up. The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.
all this means is that anyone witnessing a crime there will feel like they're watching a Clockwork Orange.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for being subtle.
If they come Bach, a Tazer and a bit Mo' ZART should do the trick.
The they'll be Haydn somewhere else.
.. or back Orff.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Do we really have to liszt all the puns?
And what about law abiding young people?
A tiny minority. Most youths are like the scary ones on TV, always burning stuff and getting into trouble you know :-P
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
But I do not care for classical music, so when I go to the station I will put in my ear buds and be rachmaninoff.
Silence is a state of mime.
Would you rather we put them on the chopin block?
Life is great! (as told by Lady Susan)
Love in a subway is something very different from love in an elevator.
<xml><I><am><so><damn>Web 2.0</damn></so></am></I></xml>
"Ma'am, can you tell us when your purse was snatched?"
"Yes officer, it was just before the 'Alle Menschen werden Brüder' chorale in the fourth movement."