CTA riders and workers have been assaulted at rates at least double other public transit agencies – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo

Cook County sheriff’s police officers patrol the 95th Street Red Line CTA station in Chicago on March 11, 2026. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune)
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Call my shrink
4 months ago

Lets lengthen the red line so we can triple the number of assaults

daskoterzar
4 months ago

My goodness, how could that be? Chicago is perfectly safe (our useless Governor said so as we walked his fat-ass on the lake front in all those commercials) and the CTA has placed the Po-Po on overtime on the trains along with Violence Interrupters (whatever the hell that is) all paid for by the $1.5B they stole from the tax payers and down state Illinois. The stats problem must Trump interfering again. Anyone seeing any accounting or Press Releases on how the $1.5 B is being spent and what improvements are being made…nope. The silence is how you can tell… Read more »

Last edited 4 months ago by daskoterzar
The Railroader
4 months ago

It might be a rise in assaults due to Soros non-prosecutor Kim Foxx sending the thugs to terrorize law abiding citizens and illegal immigrants alike instead of sending them to jail. Worse yet, the number of thugs unleashed went up while CTA ridership went down, so the numbers per-rider could reflect the CTA’s plummeting ridership as much as the number of able-bodied thugs available for mayhem on any given day.

Lies, damned lies and statistics? Perhaps.

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