A Chicago Transit Authority union leader argued last week that it is time the agency brought back conductors and re-established its own police unit to combat a surge in violent crime that endangers the safety of commuters and the transit agency’s employees.
Violent crime on public transit — and everywhere else, it goes without saying — is completely unacceptable. Riders have begun to return to public transit now that the pandemic is easing, but fears of being caught in the crossfire of a shooting, like the one that took place March 8 on a Red Line train in Englewood, could easily stymie that.
