Prince George’s County and Metro police are trying to curb crime at the county’s stations with an outreach campaign to riders.
Dubbed Operation Blue Tide, the campaign involves cops from both agencies heading out the county’s 14 Metro stations and passing out safety tips to riders on Wednesday evening.
They have reason to saturate the stations: six of the top 10 Metro stations with the highest number of serious crimes in 2010 were in the county.
In May, a woman was shot and her father beaten during a carjacking at the Largo Town Center station’s parking garage. That came on the heels of another carjacking at New Carrollton.
Even a congressman from St. Louis, Rep. William “Lacy” Clay, D-Mo., was asking about the crime problems at the county’s stations in a congressional oversight hearing last week.
Metro recently partnered with Prince George’s County Police on another campaign, giving officers SmarTrip passes so they can patrol the Metro parking facilities more easily.
