BART has been awarded $1.7 million to pay for continued police patrols on trains traveling through BART’s busiest stations.
“These funds are essential to our efforts to boost riders’ sense of security and prevent crime from occurring in our system,” said BART General Manager Bob Powers. “The grant money allows us to sustain the deployment of our Critical Asset Patrol (CAP) team for an additional year, while we continue to hire new officers to fill the 19 added positions prioritized in this year’s budget.”
BART’s CAP team consists of seven officers and one sergeant who are assigned full time to high visibility patrol on trains, platforms and in stations primarily within the core San Francisco underground BART stations.
So far this year, the CAP team has been responsible for 55 arrests including cellphone theft suspects, active warrants, stay away order violations, probation violations, public intoxication and drug use, and other criminal activity.
Each CAP team member is trained as a Terrorism Liaison Officer and collaborates with other law enforcement agencies. Since January they have run over 25 high visibility joint operations with the Transportation Security Administration’s VIPR (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response) team.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. ROFLMAO.
Waste of money. I rather conceal carry rather than rely on rent-a-cop. You’re ultimately responsible for your own safety.
Fake cameras, now fake cops?
The problem is BART police is one of the lowest paying departments now so nobody wants to work there.
After the Oscar Grant Shooting the Board of Directors decided to cut off any power for the BART police, they would rather have a lawless system then be sued. It’s truly sad for the passengers and employees. Crime is off the hook at BART, strangely the ones committing the crimes are the ones that fare evaded in.
According to BART’s website the salary for a BART police officer is $110,000 to $160,000. Compare that to Concord police, as of July 30, 2019 the average salary is $62,153.
IT’S ABOUT TIME THE PUBLIC IS AWARE OF BARTS BS. SO MANY PEOPLE DONT RIDE THE TRAIN ANYMORE. BARTS CONCLUSION TO GATE JUMPERS AND ROBBERIES WAS TO HIKE TRAIN PRICES FOR THE HONEST PEOPLE HAVE THEM PAY FOR THE TROUBLES AND NOT HOLD CRIMINALS ACCOUNTABE.IM SURPRISED IT WENT ON FOR AS LONG AS IT DID AND STILL DOES.
high visibility doesnt do a thing unless you choose to go hands on……reminds me of the commercial….im more of a security “monitor”.
BART, an organization funded by forced taxation of residents of the counties the services run through – whether used or not by any of said residents – has a police department which does next to nothing to protect the taxpaying, fare-paying, law-abiding citizens victimized by the recidivist criminals who use the system as transportation between their crimes.
BART PD is a joke, and unless it is completely overhauled and starts protecting the people who legitimately use and fund their operations, it needs to be disbanded.
The federal government awarded BART the first portion of a $1.25 billion grant to ease train crowding, BART officials announced Thursday. June 20, 2019 https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/feds-award-bart-1-2-billion-grant-to-ease-crowding-and-buy-300-new-trains/
BART receives $6.8 million safety and security grant. Aug. 27, 2018 https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2018/news20180827
BART seizes on Bay Bridge gridlock to lobby for delayed $1.25B federal grant. May 29, 2019 https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Feds-holding-up-critical-BART-project-as-grant-13904428.php?psid=hXG0X
Grace Crunican, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) general manager, recently urged the federal government to continue funding a BART project. The Transbay Core Capacity Program has secured $2.3 billion in funding but needs $1.25 billion in federal funding to move to the engineering phase. May 2019. https://transportationtodaynews.com/news/14036-san-francisco-official-urges-federal-funding-of-bart-project/
2018 – The California State Transportation Agency awards the BART Phase II Silicon Valley project a $730 million funding to expand BART service to downtown San Jose all the way through to the Santa Clara Caltrain station. This funding from the state Transit and Intercity Rail Capitol Program was made possible by Senate Bill 1. https://sd15.senate.ca.gov/730-million-state-grant-bart-silicon-valley-project-0
If I read the story correctly 8 cops arrested 55 people in almost 8 months. This is one arrest per officer per month. Are they proud of those dismal statistics ?
Some body is getting rich from all those grants. But this is California. Increase gas tax to fix our roads? Another scam.
BART has been awarded $1.7 million
awarded tax money huh how do it get in on that
“These funds are essential to our efforts to boost riders’ sense of security and prevent crime from occurring in our system,”
boost our sense of security from nothing to what a sense of security now
well thanks or rather no thanks
why do people grab pitch forks for plastic straws ….
but a public transit run by tax money that does not provide security for personal safety or parking and now charge 15 dollars a day for it …
and everyone is like yeah rip me off and oh charge me to do it …
wow this is a public service that is taking your tax money then charges you for tickets and to park so you can go to work …but allows crime andnyour vehicle to be vandalized and even better bums to urinate on the seats as well as other bodily fluids and solids …closed the restrooms because bums filthed it and used drugs
over and over they get more money for bonuses and oh the strikes for security remember that one …you allow public transit tax money to strike for more bonuses and don’t forget about the raised fares after that strike …wow ….lol
you must be proud
What a joke! They need REAL security at the entrances to prevent scum from getting in period! It’s like fire prevention, it costs far less to prevent then to deal with the effects
I thought BART was a Sanctuary District. How are they getting Federal funds?