Tracy A. Brammeier Writes About Rail and Subway Cameras Not Deterring Criminals in Chicago

Tracy A. Brammeier, clerk at Clifford Law Offices and a second year law student at Loyola University School of Law, wrote an essay that was published by the American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) in 2012. Her essay, which focuses on the lack of rail security in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.’s transit systems, won the 2012 TIPS essay competition on the topic of Disasters Caused by Foreign and Domestic Terrorism. To read, Tracy’s essay, “Shifting Focus: Developing Preparedness and Response Strategies for Terrorism Threats to U.S. Commuter Rail and Subway Systems,” please click here. The issue was recently on the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times that reported an increase in crime by 21 percent on Chicago’s CTA lines despite increased spending of $26 million to install thousands of high resolution cameras at rail stations.