Public housing residents could do a better job of patrolling Chicago Housing Authority developments than the private security firms that are now used, Vincent Lane, the CHA`s chairman and executive director, said Friday.
”The security guards are inadequately supervised and monitored,” Lane said in an interview following the taping of a radio show. ”We find them sleeping, playing cards and having bull sessions in the back room.”
Lane said he wants to replace many of the security guards, but isn`t sure how. So he intends to set up different pilot programs at three CHA sites-one that would involve Chicago police officers training CHA residents to be security guards and another that would be set up by ”an ex-military person who has a program he thinks can be implemented in public housing.” Lane would not elaborate.
