Full Wraparound Safety Improvements Necessary Immediately on Rideshares, and Carjacking, Especially in the DC Area
Posted by HCN on Monday, November 6, 2023
In DC in just this past week, there have been a couple of incidents sparking serious safety concerns about rideshares and deliveries such as for food.
In DC, last Friday evening, a moderately upscale neighborhood had a food delivery driver car taken away at gunpoint, then the assailant reportedly swung back around in the vehicle and shot the driver.
Another incident near the MD/DC juncture, in the last few days of October last week, where young teenage youth 'disappeared' for a while. He has been reunited with his family.
November this year started off with the mother of a, get this, 12 year old, turning that son in, for armed carjacking, in DC.
In nearby Baltimore, Maryland, indelible scars have been left on certain communities where moms of several children, using rideshare food delivery to raise extra income, shot by carjacker or assailant, about a month or two in, in 2022.
Early last month, Baltimore, a female was doing a food delivery and had her car stolen, dog still inside, -both eventually recovered; however, for this point, the fact that a theft occurred just moments after the driver exited the vehicle, is a serious issue.
Further up the road, Philadelphia, PA area, a 64 year old was shot multiple times, while doing a delivery last evening right around the time it gets dark. The words shame come to mind. Not how anyone, let alone seniors should be treated.
Looking up and down on the vulnerabilities to safety, the loopholes of 'what could happen or go wrong', looking east to west, it is pretty clear that although rideshares have many safe aspects, there is still plenty of catching up to do in the area of preventing disastrous incidents.
A few shy of a thousand assault incidents of a referent sort involving Uber that went reported in 2020.
Articles about assaults of drivers on passengers are found all over the Internet, spanning at least the past 8 years.
Montgomery County Maryland, one of the counties contiguous to the Nation's Capital, has an astounding set of statistics showing a high number of carjacking in just the past 3 years. (What is going on, and why hasn't it been markedly reduced yet?)
In the past few days, a young teenage male youth reportedly was interpreted by an armed off-duty agent as approaching with possible, imminent, and potentially lethal intent to carjack, along with what might have been an accomplice, and wound up being shot, fatally, by the officer.
Regardless if the young victim was not seasoned enough to know the dangers in engaging in real or play activity that remotely appears as carjacking, the bottom line is a very new life is now gone.
Look, at the Nation's Capital it being what it is in just that regard, of course it is befitting that it at least have some kind of standard or reputation to be moderately safe from carjackings and rideshare dangers, but right through here, the condition is down around a level that may be summarily described as dismal.
There are certain smells being detected. One, is stalking.
It is know the rideshare/delivery programs usually involve GPS systems in the vehicles, and drivers usually have cellular phones. Many electronic gadgetry these days have finding, tracking, such as a find me app, and other mapping features. For better or worse?, if these apps are being used to the advantage of criminals, there has to be a way to swing the favor back to the driver, and the public needs assurances and methods that driver s will not engage in criminal activity either.
It is evident that firearms often are an element in rideshare/carjacking incidents.
In DC, last Friday evening, a moderately upscale neighborhood had a food delivery driver car taken away at gunpoint, then the assailant reportedly swung back around in the vehicle and shot the driver.
Another incident near the MD/DC juncture, in the last few days of October last week, where young teenage youth 'disappeared' for a while. He has been reunited with his family.
November this year started off with the mother of a, get this, 12 year old, turning that son in, for armed carjacking, in DC.
In nearby Baltimore, Maryland, indelible scars have been left on certain communities where moms of several children, using rideshare food delivery to raise extra income, shot by carjacker or assailant, about a month or two in, in 2022.
Early last month, Baltimore, a female was doing a food delivery and had her car stolen, dog still inside, -both eventually recovered; however, for this point, the fact that a theft occurred just moments after the driver exited the vehicle, is a serious issue.
Further up the road, Philadelphia, PA area, a 64 year old was shot multiple times, while doing a delivery last evening right around the time it gets dark. The words shame come to mind. Not how anyone, let alone seniors should be treated.
Looking up and down on the vulnerabilities to safety, the loopholes of 'what could happen or go wrong', looking east to west, it is pretty clear that although rideshares have many safe aspects, there is still plenty of catching up to do in the area of preventing disastrous incidents.
A few shy of a thousand assault incidents of a referent sort involving Uber that went reported in 2020.
Articles about assaults of drivers on passengers are found all over the Internet, spanning at least the past 8 years.
Montgomery County Maryland, one of the counties contiguous to the Nation's Capital, has an astounding set of statistics showing a high number of carjacking in just the past 3 years. (What is going on, and why hasn't it been markedly reduced yet?)
In the past few days, a young teenage male youth reportedly was interpreted by an armed off-duty agent as approaching with possible, imminent, and potentially lethal intent to carjack, along with what might have been an accomplice, and wound up being shot, fatally, by the officer.
Regardless if the young victim was not seasoned enough to know the dangers in engaging in real or play activity that remotely appears as carjacking, the bottom line is a very new life is now gone.
Look, at the Nation's Capital it being what it is in just that regard, of course it is befitting that it at least have some kind of standard or reputation to be moderately safe from carjackings and rideshare dangers, but right through here, the condition is down around a level that may be summarily described as dismal.
There are certain smells being detected. One, is stalking.
It is know the rideshare/delivery programs usually involve GPS systems in the vehicles, and drivers usually have cellular phones. Many electronic gadgetry these days have finding, tracking, such as a find me app, and other mapping features. For better or worse?, if these apps are being used to the advantage of criminals, there has to be a way to swing the favor back to the driver, and the public needs assurances and methods that driver s will not engage in criminal activity either.
It is evident that firearms often are an element in rideshare/carjacking incidents.
