The agency plans to nearly double the number of police officers onboard trains starting next week.
BART plans to increase police presence on its trains and update its turnstile infrastructure, the agency announced.Taking BART might feel a little different starting next week, as the agency plans to nearly double the number of police officers on trains in response to recent complaints of heightened crime. BART also announced it is cracking down on fare evasion with a plan to spend $90 million on updated fare gates inside stations.
BART's Police Citizen Review Board , which was established after the 2009 killing of Oscar Grant at the hands of a BART police officer, told SFGATE that it is closely monitoring the redeployment of more officers onboard trains."We hope this change will have a positive impact for our riders.
Armstrong added that the board hopes the redeployment of officers from car patrols to train patrols doesn't impact how fast officers are able to respond to incidents. "For example, if the trains are halted due to an emergency or police activity, it is often the car patrols that are able to respond to the station the quickest, so we want to make sure that shifting officers from car patrol to train patrol doesn't inadvertently impact response time," Armstrong said.
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