'A lot of bad things can happen within that 14 minutes.'
The attack raises questions about the time it took police to respond. CBS 2'S Sabrina Franza has been digging into the data, tracking the numbers.
"To the average person, it is unbelievable. That's the nature of our business, which strikes fear going into the warmer months," said Keith Hill, President of Local 241.A man swinging a padlock at a CTA bus, smashing the windows Talavara is being held in jail for violating a separate charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon from a different incident after this one.Keith Hill represents bus operators, like the one driving the 66 bus on April 3. He said that driver used the silent alarm to call 911.
Digging into the numbers, between 2019 and 2022, the average response time to silent alarts increased. Nine minutes in 2019 to 14 minutes on calls recorded between January and July of last year.But a lot of that response data is missing. Blanks left where times should be recorded over 50% of the time.
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