We asked Chicago Police and Chicago Transit Authority officials what is being done about crime on our public transit - as we have for years now.
"As you know, the Chicago Police Department , which provides law enforcement for CTA, is best suited for addressing any questions related to the strategic deployment of resources.
"CTA continues to work in close coordination with CPD on a daily basis to deter crime on or near CTA properties and will also assist in investigations when they do occur. CTA supplements CPD's efforts with its extensive security-camera network and with hundreds of personnel deployed across the system each day, around the clock who are trained and acutely focused on customer comfort and safety.
We ran the numbers ourselves to check them on that - and found violent crime is slightly down this year compared to last, but still higher than we saw pre-pandemic. This table shows year-to-date data for crime on the CTA, including trains, stations, platforms, buses, bus stops, and parking lots. Most of the crime is on the Dan Ryan of the Red Line as it was last year, but there were about 15 incidents between the Chicago Avenue and Grand Avenue stops in the State Street subway so far this year too. The west branch of the Blue Line along the Eisenhower Expressway saw about a dozen incidents as well.Chicago Police and CTA officials didn't share any information on specific plans to target crime heading into the summer. We will keep checking in on that.
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