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LA Metro Riders Complain of Unwanted Sexual Advances

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getty 022315 LosAngelesMetroRail?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1424696340759 David McNew/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Mass transportation is intended to get people from Point A to Point B with a minimum of hassle.

And yet, as The Los Angeles Times reports, just over 20 percent of passengers riding L.A. Metro trains and buses claimed they were subjected to unwanted sexual advances or behavior during the first half of 2014.

Metro spokesman Paul Gonzales called the finding by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority unacceptable. 

All told, 22,000 people were asked if they encountered untoward behavior that included “touching, exposure, or inappropriate comments” and 4,850 people admitted they had.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said it received 31 reports of indecent exposure on Metro trains and buses in 2014 and made 12 arrests. There were also 62 reports of inappropriate touching, with 18 people being taken into custody. There were also six reports of inappropriate comments, with two of those offenders being arrested.

Gonzales says what’s particularly disturbing is the low number of actual reports to police about inappropriate behavior on the Metro system compared to the much higher number of those saying it happened to them in the survey.


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