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The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) has completed a project to install new security cameras at “L” stops six weeks ahead of schedule.
 
In all, nearly 1,800 additional cameras have been installed at 78 stations during a fast-track initiative announced in June, CTA officials said in a prepared statement.
 
Earlier this week, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel joined CTA President Forrest Claypool and Chicago Police Department (CPD) Superintendent Garry McCarthy in announcing the project’s completion at the Clinton Green/Pink Line station, where police recently used footage from newly installed station cameras to identify, arrest and charge an offender allegedly responsible for attacking and robbing a woman of her purse in an elevator near the station.
 
During the past five months, images pulled from CTA surveillance cameras have assisted CPD in the arrest of at least 47 individuals for crimes committed either on or near CTA property.

"The cameras … serve as a deterrent, helping to ensure the highest level of security for our transit system,” said Emanuel.