Man Killed on Bus Hours After Metro Officials Announce Law Enforcement ‘Surge’
Published on May 17, 2024
LOS ANGELES—A man was fatally shot on a bus in the city of Commerce May 16, just hours after Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced an increase in law enforcement to tackle violence on the region’s embattled public transit system. “The spike in violent crime that we have recently seen against operators and riders has been absolutely unacceptable,” Ms. Bass said during a press conference Thursday morning with transit officials. Ms. Bass, who is also chair of the board for the Metropolitan Transit Authority—known as Metro—directed an “immediate surge” of law enforcement on May 15 to patrol the system’s trains, buses, and stations....