CTA · Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026

Theft on the Brown Line, last 12 months

Crime reports CPD logged at CTA stations, trains, buses and bus stops, from City of Chicago data.

45

incidents on the Brown Line

At 27 stations

1 per 680,000

entries (rides) per report (est.)

30.5M entries · Ridership published through Aug 31, 2026; Sep 1 – Nov 3, 2026 estimated.

64

same dates a year earlier

Nov 4, 2024 – Nov 3, 2025 · -19 (-30%) this year · 1 per 680,000 vs 1 per 480,000 rides (est.)

Brown Line

Entries per report, darker = more oftenover 800,000400,000–800,000200,000–400,000100,000–200,000under 100,000Size = incidents. none. outside Chicago (no CPD data).

Brown Line

Incidents: 45
Rate: 1 per 680,000 rides
Stations: 27
Most incidents: Belmont (10)

Brown Line stations · all 27, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026

Brown Line stations in order, incidents and rate per ride (1 incident per X entries)
Station	Incidents	Per ride

	1	1 per 780,000
low ridership	1	1 per 450,000
low ridership	0	none
low ridership	0	none
	0	none
	0	none
low ridership	0	none
	0	none
low ridership	0	none
	0	none
	0	none
+ Red, Purple	10	1 per 260,000

+ Purple	0	none
+ Purple	1	1 per 1,100,000
+ Red, Purple	6	1 per 440,000
+ Purple	0	none
+ Purple	0	none
+ Purple	1	1 per 1,300,000
+ Purple	0	none

+ 3 lines	1	1 per 1,500,000
+ 3 lines	0	none
+ 3 lines	1	1 per 570,000
+ 3 lines	3	1 per 270,000
+ 4 lines	3	1 per 490,000
+ 4 lines	3	1 per 1,000,000
+ 4 lines no entries since Feb 2026	6	–
+ 5 lines	8	1 per 470,000

Per ride = 1 incident per X entries (rides). Ridership through Aug 31, 2026, later days estimated.

Time of day · Brown Line stretches and stations, rate per ride, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026

Time of day on the Brown Line, by stretch or station, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026

45 reports of theft

Reports per ride by stretch and 4-hour block, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026. Each cell reads 1 report per X rides; a dash means too few reports or not rated.
Stretch	12–4 am	4–8 am	8 am–noon	noon–4 pm	4–8 pm	8 pm–12 am
Brown Line45 reports	not rated: too few survey trips for this block	fewer than 10 reports	fewer than 10 reports	1 per 600,000	1 per 710,000	fewer than 10 reports

Rides per report, darker = more dangerousover 800,000400,000–800,000200,000–400,000100,000–200,000under 100,000too few reports or not rated

Each cell: 1 report per X rides in that block, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026

About these numbers

Crime types. Violent = homicide, criminal sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault and aggravated battery. “Include simple battery” (on by default here, unlike other pages) adds battery without a weapon or serious injury.
Stations and lines. An “L” report counts at the nearest station within 150 m (281 of 341 in these dates); the rest count only in the All CTA and All “L” totals. A line or part of a line adds up its stations, so a report at a station several lines share (Clark/Lake, the Loop, Roosevelt) counts on each of them. Stations outside Chicago have no CPD data.
Per ride. “1 per X rides” = one incident for every X station entries or bus rides (entries, not riders; a shared station's entries count for each line); X = 1,000,000 ÷ incidents per million. Ridership is published monthly (through Aug 31, 2026); later days use the latest 12 months' daily average. Stations under 500K entries a year are flagged “low ridership”.
Buses. A bus report is shared among routes within 50 m, weighted by ridership. Route rates need 1M+ rides a year; the route table needs 2M+.
Time of day. The first tab rates each 4-hour block per ride: CTA publishes no hourly ridership, so riders in a block are estimated as entries (or bus boardings) × that block's share of CTA trips in CMAP's My Daily Travel survey; its ⓘ note has the details. The other tabs count reports by the hour the City recorded. Unknown times are often logged at midnight or noon, which lifts those hours.