CTA Crime Still an Issue
In the first two pages of the CWB blog, there are no fewer than five separate CTA crimes in recent days along with a few others that finally reached resolution via the courts.
Another criminal who (A) can't read signs, (B) doesn't recognize the red circle BANNED meaning and (C) happens to be a felon who can't have a gun in the first place:
A 43-year-old Chicago man is facing gun charges after Cook County Sheriff’s Police allegedly found him rolling a joint on the Red Line and then discovered a loaded gun in his jacket.
Around 2:35 p.m. on May 31, deputies were conducting a routine patrol on a train car at the 69th Street station when they saw Kenneth Stapleton rolling what appeared to be a cigar stuffed with a green leafy substance, the sheriff’s office said Friday.
Stapleton was detained for violating CTA rules, and a records check turned up an active warrant connected to a forgery case, officials said. During a search, deputies recovered a loaded firearm from his jacket and learned that he did not have a Firearm Owner’s Identification card or a concealed carry license, according to the sheriff’s office. Prosecutors approved a charge of aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon later that day.
That Red Line certainly is a shit-magnet.
- Federal prosecutors have charged two men with kidnapping a DePaul University student and taking him on a terrifying crosstown Red Line ride during which they repeatedly threatened to kill him while making electronic bank transfers and issuing ransom demands to his friends and family.
The sheriffs can't do it alone, so a couple of successful federal prosecutions would go a long way to making the CTA ride-able again.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
26 Comments:
Metra v CTA.
Separate but equal?
Why is CTA a fucking hell hole and metra a little slice of heaven?
federal charges? man, that be racist
Sheriff must not be too busy policing unincorporated Cook County if he is able to place manpower on the trains?
Does he have a budget surplus?
Hey man, he needs to carry do 2 midnight basketball. Dem streets be danejerus in his hood.
You’re correct. As always! A few uncle fed step ins will stop it. Better yet curb kick politiliars for ones who believe in real safety and civility.
Rode the CTA Charcoal Line while working CTA Special Enjoyment, usually from Roosevelt Road out to 95th Street. Never sat in a seat ever, always stood right by an exit door. Also made sure I always had a 6 and 7 key with me.
I have new respect for the Sheriff's police these days based on their CTA work. But would go a long way to making the trains safe again is for the CPD leadership to take this seriously and put more officers on the trains and stations. Then ? Have the CTA spend the money and make it near impossible to enter the stations or trains without paying. San Fran did this and experienced a 40% cut in anti-social behavior and crime. A simple fix. I want to see Johnson walk the streets downtown at night and ride the trains at night with only one or two bodyguards, but he should take his wife and kids along for the ride without their bodyguards. Then things would change.
I don't know what restrictions CPD works under regarding pushing cases over to Federal Prosecutors, but if everyone arrested in possession of a "switch", & every Chicago felon with a gun got bumped to Fed court, with time served at 85% far away from home, our streets would begin to calm down remarkably fast.
Did the Feds step in to charge the illegal who murdered the college student by Loyola univ?
I'm glad to see the feds involved.
Citizens are still afraid to ride the CTA because they dont want to get set on fire, shot, or stabbed in the neck. This gunman was only rolling a blunt which only makes you stupid for a while. All of the other paranoid schizoiphrenics are using much harder drugs and are much less predictable. Then we have the dropouts from society known as the homeless. They ride the rails, and will use any controled substance they can lay their hands on to chase a high. Fentanyl, methamphetamine, weed, alcohol, presciptions etc...Add to that the disgusting conditions of the subway stations and train cars that smell like feces and urine, and you have people that say, "No thanks" "I'll drive"
Did you say sheriffs?
Army Special Forces candidates final two week graduation exercise, called Rachel Quest, takes place in a make believe country called Pinelandia. Perhaps they should also have a urban exercise in Chicago. It would involve leaving a bar in River North, after midnight, on foot and then riding CTA trains to a distant location without being successfully robbed. Bonus points would be give on the number of robbers eliminated.
CPD is short over 2,000 police officers. More police officers are now assigned to inside,house mice,positions CAPS, Commander Staff,Deputy Chief Staff,Tactical secretary , The Captain rank is now a administrative position to assist the merit commanders. Years ago Captains ran every watch, field Lt. responded to calls. Chicago needs new political leadership
"a couple of successful federal prosecutions would go a long way to making the CTA ride-able again."
I don't think so.
Folks don't read, don't watch the news and don't think about consequences EVER.
If you ride the CTA and you are unarmed , You are a fool!
Sgt Doucherst says Devries is promoting him to Commander of Mass Transit.
NYC has the blue state issue with public transportation safety. They don't want to violate the rights of a mental or criminal. A mental that should be in jail or mental hospital is free to commit a knife attack which injured five people.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/08/us-news/penn-station-slashing-suspect-was-free-despite-eerily-similar-2022-attack-records/
Wow. They actually gave the race and charged one for pantsing a crosser? Hmmm. One way to arrest them. Wonder if that would happen here?
See the feral photo. Some one got a pop in the face.
https://thepostmillennial.com/ohio-man-held-on-8000-bail-after-trans-identifying-male-assaulted-at-theme-park?utm_campaign=64470
Speaking of federal charges...$20 million stolen from union dues.
A Chapel Hill couple and other top union officials were convicted Friday in federal court of using millions in members’ dues to pay for lavish trips, dinners and payouts.
The union dues were meant to provide members and their families with retirement and health benefits, but the couple and two other former Boilermakers Union executives used the money “as their personal piggy banks,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Faiza Alhambra told jurors.
The federal jury found Chapel Hill resident Newton Jones and William Creeden, of Kearney, Missouri, guilty of embezzlement and violating the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act.
Jones, 72, is the former president of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Forgers, and Helpers, based in Kansas City, Kansas. The Boilermakers Union represents about 46,000 U.S. and Canadian employees who work on boilers, pipes, and power plants and ships.
Creeden, 78, is the union’s former secretary treasurer.
Jones’ wife Kateryna Jones, 33, was also convicted of embezzlement and violating the RICO Act. A fourth defendant, former Boilermaker Union’s vice president Lawrence McManamon, 78, of Rocky River, Ohio, was found guilty of embezzlement.
McManamon faces up to five years in prison on each count, and Creeden, Newton Jones and Kateryna Jones could each face up to 20 years in prison.
A federal district court judge is scheduled to sentence them Sept. 1.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article316047322.html
More 5k short dummy.
CTA is hopeless.
Exactly! Where did all these extra Sheriff's Police materialize from? There's only about 400 of them and Dart has them downtown, in 015, on the L, in the ghetto grabbing boxcar burglars. I guess if you live in unincorporated Cook Co., you'll be waiting until the apocalypse for the Police. Watch Dart start this shit up for a "Metropolitan Police Dept." to cover city and burbs, ala Vegas, Indy, etc. with him as Chief.
Another old timer telling “back in my day” stories.
That Red Line certainly is a shit-head magnet.
only makes you stupid for a while? only makes them more stupid then they already are for a while.
Mass Transit needs another 200 Police Officers on patrol. Need arrests and incarceration of repeat offenders. Minimum of 30 days for 2nd offenders jumping turnstiles,smoking on trains.
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