This is a simple question really, a straightforward question from a father who once loved Chicago, to another father who is mayor of Chicago, yet who defends the violent lest they be “demonized” by those troublesome law-abiding taxpayers:

Mayor Johnson, would you let your daughter ride unaccompanied on the CTA?

I don’t mean riding with an escort of armed Chicago police bodyguards with those cop faces that tell everyone thinking about approaching to stay away. Or a city limousine ride with the mayor’s ample bodyguard detail.

I mean alone on the rapid transit, with no advance warning to the CTA, just like thousands of poor women and girls must do so every day and night. They ride CTA rapid transit and the buses to get to and from work and school. Ridership plummets, even as crime increases. And women and girls are constantly subject to the threat of violence and real violence of beatings and robbery, of sexual assault.