Amalgamated Transit Union President for Trains Eric Dixon, called the CTA's newest crime-fighting effort 'just a Band-Aid being put on a bullet wound.'
The CTA has announced a new plan to keep passengers safe, increasing the number of security guards stationed on the Red and Blue Lines, while cracking down on all types of “conduct issues.”
Dixon called the CTA’s newest attempt to make guards more visible during peak hours on the Red and Blue Lines “just a Band-Aid being put on a bullet wound.”on the Red Line on Tuesday., after he and his wife were beaten last week after following them from the Blue Line. CBS 2 looked at violent crime on trains from January to the end of February over the past five years. It was at its highest in 2020.Acts of battery, specifically, continue to rise, with 15 such incidents so far this year.“It was very interesting, because I hadn’t heard anything from CTA about it,” he said.
“The money that you utilize for these security firms, put it into our own policing here at the CTA to be able to deter the crime,” Dixon said.“Like many major U.S. transit agencies, the CTA does not have its own police force. The CTA last had its own police force in the early 1980s, but it was replaced by a much more effective and fiscally prudent partnership with the Chicago Police Department .
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