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To the editor:
"Slowing down: City transit workers take relaxation classes to cope with job stress," (The Chief, Aug. 2) provides a dubious service for employees who've been the victims of criminal assaults. I guess it doesn't hurt to use relaxation techniques to help workers in the line of fire and fists. But it won't protect them from injury or death.
Here are some more logical ideas. How about undercover cops on the buses and in the subway cars with transit employees? These cops would need to be supported should they find it necessary to use violence against the violent. Perhaps they could be called the Bronson squad.
Perhaps the transit workers' assailants could use a new place to live, located on an island called Rikers.
Also, unless things have changed since I retired, I assume transit workers still have to worry about being wrongly disciplined by some supervisors and managers. That certainly is stressful. I won't hold my breath waiting for this, but I do think there should be a disciplinary process to deal with those who abuse their power.
Richard Warren
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Enforcement on laws that should protect Transot workers that may work!!! Unfortunately good on camera to say , good on the books to write but actual enforcement just another waste of ink !!!
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