Metro Increases Security At Union Station After Janitors Raise Alarm Over Verbal And Physical Attacks

Raise their wages too. They put up with too much BS compared to these lazy bureaucrats who never use the public transit system but are in charge of it.

Shits pretty bad when people are fucking with the janitors

Metro increases security after news got out and embarrasses them.

I’m tired of the homeless abusing blue collar workers. I’ve had it. I constantly vote blue, but something has to give democrats. Stop coddling the homeless. They belong in mental hospitals or rehab not the streets. They are mentally sick.

I just read the article and there’s been sexual assault wtf!! When janitors are getting abused there’s a lot of fuckery going on.

We're seeing this pattern more recently. Trash accumulates in certain areas, and nothing gets done until a local news station covers it. The UP rail line becomes a dump as people steal from freight trains. Negative publicity ensues, and then finally something gets done. Same thing with Union Station and the recent LA Times story.

Can we be proactive instead of reactive for once?

One time I was using the urinal at Union Station and when I finished and turned around, there was a guy just sitting on the floor behind me smoking crack (I think it was crack?). I was so startled that I just mumbled, "sorry" and scooted around him, as if I was the rude one for interrupting his crack smoking, lol.

They only did that shit after they started reporting it on the news.

I mean is this really "increasing security"?

Public bathrooms will be locked and have a guard posted outside when janitors clean them. Mental health teams will be deployed to the station, and employees will get regular de-escalation techniques training. And as of Monday, the Los Angeles Police Department is increasing foot beats at Union Station.

Some training and locking the doors while the bathrooms are cleaned?

And increased foot beats by the LAPD... I'm sure they'll be there for a couple hours in the afternoon on a saturday, and not when it gets real sketch at night.

What a coincidence that the sheriff department’s contract with Metro is up in a few months.

Like when a pro athlete starts showing up to practice on time for the first time in years right before they’re about to become a free agent…

There's always been plenty of security in the station. More isn't going to make a difference simply because you're not going to find anyone willing to get into altercations with drug addicts and crazy people every moment of their shift. I don't blame them, I wouldn't risk getting shanked for near minimum wage either.

literally fuck these vagrants. de-escalation training for employees? Fuck off Metro.

Why is there not a separate transit police department? Like the airport has?