Posted on 04/24/2022 8:21:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In Chicago, on just one evening this week, there were three people injured and one person killed in multiple shootings. Sadly, that wasn’t a big enough number to make the headlines outside of the Windy City because it’s really just a typical night out on the town. An increasing amount of criticism has been leveled against the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) because the trains and buses have become some of the most dangerous places to be, particularly after dark. Now, as CBS Chicago reports, the CTA is answering the call for action. But their latest response has been to announce that they will be deploying 300 unarmed guards to ride the lines and monitor the stations. CBS is perhaps overly polite when they ask the obvious question. Will that be enough?
Robberies, stabbings, and shootings are among the violent attacks that have been reported in the CTA system within just the last month.
Is the answer to fight these crimes bringing in unarmed security guards? The city thinks so.
As CBS 2’s Jermont Terry reported, CTA riders say they feel like they’re watching their backs – whether on buses or trains – and the Chicago Transit Authority expects those security guards to watch out for all issues.
Over the first three months of 2022, crimes on Chicago trains are up 40% over the same period last year and more than 55% over the first three months of 2018, so you can’t blame this on the pandemic. Carjackings are also through the roof, possibly leading to more people riding the trains, which is unfortunate given this recent news.
Almost all of this crime is being driven by gang violence in Chicago. They are well armed with illegal weapons and seem to have very little fear of repercussions for their crimes. People are being robbed, assaulted and killed in broad daylight. (We’ll have some video at the end of this article to demonstrate just how bad it’s gotten.)
The CTA says that these 300 unarmed “security guards” will be “flooding the trains and buses.” They are all being trained in “de-escalation and conflict resolution.” They have apparently learned nothing from other cities where the “defund the police” movement drove policy changes that reduced the number of police and put in place these “community intervention” specialists because of supposed racism in law enforcement outcomes. In Baltimore alone, three of these “de-escalation” specialists have been killed on the streets in the past 18 months and many others were injured.
If your plan is to station someone with a clipboard on a train and ask them to intervene when some gang banger pulls out a gun, good luck to you. We’ve seen this movie before and it doesn’t end well. The citizens of Chicago and all the rest of our cities deserve the right to travel in safety on public transportation and that means having real police officers on hand who are armed and ready to answer force with more force. That gang banger with a gun on the train that I described above will stop and think twice if there’s an armed cop in the same car with him. A clipboard is unlikely to slow him down.
If you really want to understand why things have gone so badly in Chicago and other cities, along with the government policies that led to all of this mayhem, including a horrifying video of a gang execution in broad daylight, watch this segment from Tucker Carlson. If you don’t want the entire analysis, fast forward to the 13:55 mark. Assume a disturbing content warning for extremely graphic violence. This is happening on the streets of Chicago virtually every day.
Guaranteed that these unpaid "security guards" do not have to pass a background check and wouldn't pass one anyway.
Might as well put a sign on their backs “shoot me”.
Excuse me, would you like to get stomped by 8 black males for $12 an hour?
Sounds great, sign me up...
Who would be suicidally stupid enough to take such a job and be unarmed ? Even gang members aren’t that stupid to go without a weapon.
My city does this and the guards aren’t allowed to do anything. They can watch a guy shoot up drugs in the open and they can’t do anything. The only thing they can do is be an eyewitness to events.
Is there a dead pool as to when the first Security Guard gets shot & killed?
How insensitive. Social workers are much more empathetic.
Social workers, huh?
Before a security guard is shot and killed, there are going to be shootings where the guard is no more than a bystander and the whole program will be called into question.
This program is a big lie from politicians to Chicago residents to pretend the politicians are doing something about crime but that lie won't hold up as the victimization continues.
Looking for the 300 dumbest people in Chicago.
In Russia none of the patrol officers have guns and shooting is a last resort that requires calling armed backup.
They do have sticks though and definitely look like they know how to use them...
WHO is stupid enough to take such a job???
Look for a future video of an unarmed security guard on a bus asking for an amberlamps.
Not to mention all the "kick me" injuries from clogs and tenny-runners flying about the closed in spaces of untrained sockless summer revelers.
And the smells! My god man, the smells!
I hope they teach them how to duck.
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