LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva blamed so-called “woke” city leaders in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) for the unsafe conditions on the city’s public transit lines during a press conference April 13 at the Hall of Justice.
Villanueva said he sent a letter to the board saying he would remove 325 of his deputies currently patrolling public transit and redeploy them elsewhere unless the board restores full public safety control to the department by July 1.
