Posted on 03/16/2024 5:32:21 AM PDT by Salman
Only days after one passenger shot and killed another aboard a West Side bus filled with other riders, Chicago Transit Authority union leader Keith Hill says he’s now open to seeing the Illinois National Guard provide security for the long-troubled system.
“Since 2017, my call has been for extra security, a presence on the transit system,” Hill told The Center Square. “From a worker standpoint, the workers need to feel safe. When a person rides the system, they should feel safe getting from point A to point B.”
Late Tuesday night, a 53-year-old man began waving a knife around while riding a CTA bus in the 4400 block of West Division, according to CPD. Another passenger pulled out a gun, shot the man, and fled before police arrived.
Now, Hill, head of Amalgamated Transit Union 241, says he envisions a plan similar to the one put in place earlier this month by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul: Teams of guard members are stationed at different locations across the city, conducting bag checks for weapons as part of a security detail.
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Unlike the National Guard, UN "peacekeepers" will have no compunction about violating human rights.
It’ll never happ3en in Chicago. The mayor calls a mob of thugs “a gathering of teenagers” and doesn’t call crooks, crooks but constituents. And the second city will keep electing democrats, figuring if electing democrats didn’t help before, hey, lets try the exact same thing again.
Why not? It happened in NYC (which also has a Democrat mayor etc).
At one time, the Union would have taken care of the problem on their own.
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