The Washington Post reported today that the Metro Transit Police have recommended the installation of security cameras outside 30 of the most dangerous Metro stations. [WaPo] DC has agreed to pay $225,000 for the installations, and the Metro Transit Police are urging Virginia and Maryland to fund the installation of outdoor cameras at stations in their jurisdictions as well.
And, in case you're wondering, Metro is funding the installation of security cameras outside the Anacostia station...independently of their larger camera installation project. Anacostia has the highest crime-rate of any station in the Metrorail system.
I won't ask if anyone wants to place bets on how long it's going to take before the cameras at Anacostia are destroyed by gunshots, rioting, or some other enormous but somehow not surprising event.
(Don't hate me, Anacostians, for I love your neighborhood and desperately wish I lived there, too.)
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