Ex-Metro security chief says police patrols were so lax, they didn't notice a dead man at station

A dead man was slumped over on a bench at Metro’s San Pedro Street station in February. For nearly six hours, nobody checked his condition, including five Los Angeles Police Department officers who had been patrolling the platform. It took a transit ambassador doing a welfare check to see the man had died, said former Metro security chief Gina Osborn. “They weren’t even paying attention,” she said. “They weren’t engaged enough to see that there was a human hunched over.” Osborn, a former FBI agent, knows because she and her...