Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board of Directors Chair Karen Bass said Thursday she has ordered an 'immediate surge' in public safety personnel on buses and trains to increase their visibility and deter crime.
Responding to a recent violent attacks tied to the region's transit system, Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board of Directors Chair Karen Bass said Thursday she has ordered an "immediate surge" in public safety personnel on buses and trains to increase their visibility and deter crime."The spike in violent crime on Metro that we have recently seen against operators and riders has been absolutely unacceptable," Bass said during a late-morning news conference Thursday.
"We have the responsibility to every single one of our riders and our bus operators and our train operators to make the Metro safe, and part of the solution, I believe, has to be increasing law enforcement visibility and presence on our system," she said.Hahn acknowledged the contracts with LAPD, LASD and LBPD are critical for public safety, "but for too long, these contracts have not gotten us a readily visible law enforcement presence on our system.
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