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Chicago police highlight new strategies to keep CTA safe
With violent crime on public transit making headlines in Chicago, police say they are doubling down on efforts to make trains and buses safe.
CHICAGO - A shooting on a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Red Line train early Saturday in the Loop is the latest in a string of violent attacks on the Red Line this month.
Including Saturday's shooting, FOX 32 Chicago counts at least 6 attacks on the Red in August, along with one person arrested for having a gun:
- On August 27, a woman was shot in the leg on a Red Line train in Chicago's Loop.
- On August 20, Jonathan Jimenez-Alcanta, 21, was arrested just after midnight after transit riders told police they saw him with a gun in the stairwell at a Red Line stop on the Near North Side.
- On August 14, Anthony Dinion, 40, was arguing with someone at the 69th Street Station when the other person pulled out a gun and shot him before running off. Dinion died days later.
- On August 13 at the Sox-35th Street stop, police say three robbers hit a man, knocked him to the ground, and took his belongings.
- On August 9 on the North Side, a 37-year-old was riding a Red Line train when he got into an argument with a female that carried over to the Fullerton station platform, where she stabbed him in the neck.
- On August 6, a 29-year-old man was shot dead on a CTA Red Line train at the 79th Street stop.
- On August 3, a 21-year-old man was stabbed multiple times while riding a CTA Red Line train in the South Loop. He was approached by a male who made derogatory remarks and began stabbing him.
The CTA and Chicago police have promised to increase patrols on trains and buses.