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The Chicago Transit Authority has submitted a new safety plan to the Federal Transit Administration in an effort to avoid losing $50 million in funding, proposing a 75 percent increase in monthly policing hours. The plan also calls for expanding AI-powered gun detection technology to more than 1,500 cameras across Chicago rail stations and enhancing fare messaging on CTA buses.
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This should impede the thug element brandishing AI guns.
Spending that $1.5B nicely we see on overtime services, software, etc. Might help, but really is not the problem. Who here thinks the CTA will blow through that $1.5B this year and be broke again next year?
If you want to reduce crime on the CTA, force every alderman to take the CTA downtown to work everyday.