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CTA Cameras Lead to Arrests, Lawsuits for Vandalism
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and the Chicago Police Department are using the CTA’s growing network of security cameras to crack down on graffiti and other vandalism on board buses, railcars, and stations. Their new strategy: filing lawsuits against the parents of minor children and others arrested for the crime to recover the cost of damages.
Since May 2011, CTA has installed thousands of security cameras at its stations, facilities, and vehicles. The authority also installed multiple cameras onto 830 older railcars that did not have any cameras.
Following several police surveillance missions and using images pulled from station and railcar cameras, police made 60 arrests for graffiti-related crimes on CTA properties in the first three months of 2014—the equivalent of all vandalism arrests made in the previous year. Many of these arrests would not have been made without images caught on the cameras.
The anti-graffiti lawsuits, the first of their kind filed by the CTA, are the result of images of criminal graffiti acts captured by CTA security cameras at rail stations and on railcars. The CTA and Chicago police used those images to identify the individuals who committed the vandalism and make arrests.
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