However, according to several news reports, cameras will not be installed inside CTA’s trains.
Apparently, the thieves who prowl the commuter trains looking for victims, are taking full advantage of this security "oversight".
At approximately 3 p.m., a man called police stating he was robbed at gunpoint on the CTA Red Line.
The purported robbery occurred aboard a northbound CTA train at the 87th Street “L” stop at 15 West 87th Street.
Three young black male offenders, one of them reportedly armed with a gun, robbed the passenger on the train, said a police dispatch report.
One suspect was wearing a white and black baseball cap.
After the alleged robbery, the victim got off the train at the 79th Street “L” stop, 15 West 79th Street, and waited for the police.
According to police dispatch, as of 3:36 p.m., the victim was still waiting for the cops.
No further details are available.
No, the coming 5000 series cars will have cameras.
ReplyDeleteWhether or not the older cars will get them is obviously a money problem.
Cameras can sometimes help with identifying bad guys after the fact, but that is little comfort to the victims that are being brutalized on video.
ReplyDeleteHow they gonna decipher one from the other when they're all wearing "White T's"? Hell, there was a song about "White T's" back about, oh, 10years ago! Chicago is like steppin' back to '67.
ReplyDeleteIt's beyond comical at this point.
So, the bottom line is......even the CTA workers are scurred to get up on those trains (I heard ya'll used to have "conductors"). Says much. Says.....it ALL!
ReplyDeleteCamera's are so way after the fact. Would have been better to put that money into security guards on the trains and stop it BEFORE it happens.
ReplyDeleteFYI - Please be careful when pulling out your cellphones on or around CTA property. Five black male suspects snatched a man's cell phone out of his hand at a Washington Street "L" station, around 6 p.m. this evening.
ReplyDeleteNice work, CTA (though the primary "props" go to the communities in which these thugs grew up & learned that armed robberies on trains is acceptable behavior). Actually, come to think of it, this isn't the CTA's fault at all, it can't go & teach these thugs right from wrong.
ReplyDeleteBut anyway, what kind of protection would cameras even offer? So your family can watch on grainy video a group of thugs stomping on you until your skull is cracked open?
At least the thugs in the first robbery kept it to their south side hood, though obviously the second one noted in the comments was in the loop, at evening rush hour, not cool.
That explains the resurgence of the Guardian Angels in Chicago.
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