Ignatius was joined by locals who opposed reducing police enforcement and its funding. To discourage criminals, they called for increased local police presence.
Residents expressed their worries and aspirations for the city to support local law enforcement one by one.
Officials reduced the number of cops monitoring the whole CTA system to only 70 every shift, which infuriated the crowd. They said that in order to protect passengers,
The city needed to hire additional police. The audience reacted negatively to the police’s effort to allay anxieties and fury by saying that crime on the CTA is down.
A cursory examination of the statistics, however, revealed that there had been 42% more arrests than during the same period last year.
