CTA union leader demands return of CTA conductors, re-establishing disbanded CTA police unit, to combat crime surge – Chicago Sun-Times*

“It makes no sense to me. Boston, New York, D.C., Atlanta, Toronto — all these cities have their own transit policing and we can’t have ours back here,” union president Eric Dixon said. “I’ve been around for 35 years. You had guys undercover in the subways. As a conductor, I would see them get on the trains. If something happened, I’d say, ‘In the fourth car, we’ve got a situation.’ They would go to that car. They’d stop things from happening.”