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“You should never feel 100 percent safe. You should be aware, and … don’t be getting publicly intoxicated. It makes you really a target for people to really take advantage of you.”
– APD Chief Art Acevedo’s comment to KXAN on the incidences of sexual assault by Uber and Lyft drivers
This article appears in December 18 • 2015.
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