gorge,
could you post all your policies old and new. its hard to keep trak of. and why do you make everything sticky. its hard to find new posts when too many stickies.
i agree you should ban personal or insulting taxi drivers. why don't you llook at mike foulks? i don't come here much because all the bad talk about each other.
George, After giving it much consideration I have decided that you do indeed deserve an apology. I apologize for making statements about your personal life. This should not have been mentioned.
Sorry you felt misquoted. You did mention your desire to have shields replaced by cameras in this forum.
My stance is that shields are like seat belts to a taxi driver. The San Francisco study says that the crime rates went up where the security cameras were installed. I would bet that the same thing will happen here if cameras are substituted for partitions. Why are seat belts required? The same reason why partitions are currently required: driver safety.
You are a little young to remember these days George, but here is a refresher: Every murder of a driver was in a vehicle without a shield when only one third of taxis had partitions. The city experimented with the 1/3 plan for a few years before making it mandatory for all driven by non owners. My source for this statement is your own landlord. I haven't talked to him in years, but I did ask him why the city made the partitions mandatory when the law came into effect some time ago. This is also how I know one of your so called heroes was also a load stealing thief that was excommunicated by your affiliation. I wasn't insulting this "hero", but only telling the truth.
I quit A-U due to unfair practices in the radio dispatch office. Your landlord's secretary was my fare one day this year. She told me I was right about his dispatch and that he also had fired all but one of his employees that had worked there when I was a member. They have also gone to computer dispatching like my current affiliation has done for the last decade or two. Finally out of the "stone age!"
You can be nice and admit I'm right on as to the facts and sources. Go upstairs and verify it sometime. Also do look for a private email in your in box. I think you need to hear a few other things.......
Article today about camera used in Cook County to catch speeders in construction zones. ZERO convictions this year due to poor image quality. I believe there were over 800 cases with NONE being of good enough quality to convict.
Wow, this knowledge gives me great comfort driving without a shield......
Article was in Chicago Tribune.
"I would imagine that the rates would be..."
Your postulation, rooted in your imagination, is similar to the assertion... by Dr. Stone that partitions are INTUITIVELY EFFECTIVE.
I can only interpret such GUESSES about taxi partition use viability are based in nothing more than WISHFUL THINKING. In other words; "We EXPECT them to work... so they probably DO."
What a load of crap.
Taxi partition use mandates only serve the regulator... in that they create an illusion of protection, much like 'restraining orders' from a judge.
Regulators need to APPEAR to be addressing the 'cab driver murder' issue. Taxi partition installation mandates DO THAT... very well.
A partition, in a taxi, merely indicates that the prospective victim is at least AWARE that there is a risk, but in no way discourages or prevents an attack. The INDICATION is a false one. Most drivers don't want or like partitions.
Partitions not only mutilate and kill occupants in collisions... they inspire the formerly knife wielding assailant to upgrade... to using a gun, instead of a knife.
This explains why murder rates increase... with partition use mandates.
The major claim of 'victory' used by partition use proponents is; "Assaults and robberies decline with partition use mandates."
What they include in the studies... is the radical increase in murder rates... but that little factoid is well concealed and effectively soft-pedalled in the editorial content of the studies... unless one IS LOOKING FOR IT.
SWC
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A well informed driver, wow. Good information sir. It seem that San Francisco decided that cameras were not effective. We're 60 times more likely to be murdered on the job than in other occupations yet George advocates removing the partitions from Chicago taxi cabs.
I already have a wife George. Find you own out of the cab and lets put this to rest once and for all. No one likes a seat belt either. A partition is like a seat belt to a cab driver in a big city.
When was the last time a Chicago MEDALLION taxi driver was murdered in his/her taxi? What was the murder rate in the non partition years? I would imagine that the rates would be similiar to accidents involving an ejection from a vehicle while using a seat belt or not wearing one.
