A new team of security officers will be deployed on buses throughout Los Angeles County, following the Los Angeles Metro Board of Directors’ recent decision to fund hiring 48 such officers to keep bus operators and riders safe amid an uptick in assaults on transit routes.
“It is important that we’re finally going to have a team of transit security officers who are dedicated to our buses and are actually riding them alongside our passengers,” Los Angeles County Supervisor and Metro board member Janice Hahn said in a March 27 statement. “Most of Metro’s consistent transit riders take the bus and they deserve a safe and comfortable ride.”
