Greenway Assault and Coalition’s Response
A biker was recently attacked on the Midtown Greenway. The Midtown Greenway Coalition has put up a great response to the incident. Here’s what it does well:
- It explains what happened.
- It assesses the danger to other users and allays fears where possible.
- It relays some practical safety advice.
- It explains what they’ll do to help prevent it from happening in the future.
- It explains how you as a member of the community and a user of the Greenway can help.
Not to mention it gives the happy community warm fuzzy.
There’s a lot more good info on their website. Subscribe to the MGC’s e-news for monthly updates.
(via Peter Fleck)
OMG scary. I never feel safe on the greenway after dark, for the shear fact that there’s less bikers there even.
This freaks me out a little as I would ordinarily have no problem being out on the Greenway at that time of night.
I know people get all het up about the news reporting the race of alleged criminals and victims and whatnot. And this obviously isn’t a news outlet, nor have I bothered to look for the story in a news outlet. But I wonder what the race is of the gang members and of the biker. I wonder because I have this perhaps false sense of security in the fact that I’m a minority and perhaps that makes me safer from crime perpetrated by other minorities.