L.A. Metro Board Pushes Police Reform, Seeks To Shift Funds To Homeless Outreach
LAPPL News Watch
June 26, 2020
Transportation officials on Thursday pushed Los Angeles County’s transit
system to start a reform of policing on buses and trains, including no
longer sending armed officers to respond to nonviolent crimes.
The
Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s directors voted 9 to 2 to
approve a package of reforms, including hiring unarmed ambassadors to
work at stations, expanding fare discounts, finding alternatives to
armed law enforcement and shifting funds to homeless outreach.
Those
initiatives could be paid for by cutting some funding to policing, the
measure said.
In a study conducted by Metro last year, two-thirds of
female riders said there were not enough police officers on the transit
system.
Current riders’ most common recommendation to improve safety was
hiring more police.
That suggests Metro should try to fix the policing
culture and perception of safety on the system, rather than remove
police entirely, said director and Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr.
2 comments:
I can't wait for the insurance companies to stop writing policies in these crime infested urban nightmare cities. Bond ratings are already dropping. They won't be able to get a loan for a Bus Stop.
Do they actually respond to crimes now? I wonder if fare evasion is a serious crime?
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