BART is hiding the truth about rising robberies on its trains

BART has a criminal problem and the agency is trying to hide it. Two public group attacks of the same station for three months issued only the most bureaucratic postings without any advertisement warnings, no notice.

As more and more robberies occur in key commuting systems, it is necessary to send clear notifications and recommendations to safety drivers. The police announced that the witness's claims and the public warning were gone. Passengers do not know the seriousness of the problem or what they can do to defend and help the authorities.

In this incident, a group of about ten young robbers who took the iPhone 7 from seven female passengers and ran away from the train at the stadium was involved. A 62 - year - old security guard outside the office found trouble, followed it and collected equipment. His excellent citizenship was praiseworthy and the BART police soon went to work to catch up with the offender who was attacked. They are detained, photographed, released, and future accusations are possible

However, the word of attack was not excluded for several days. It was the same in April when 40 young people entered the door and boarded BART at the same station. They hit the driver and robbed them before taking off. Two suspects were later arrested and charged with unpublished charges

In the case of April, the police record contained a short summary emailed to a journalist who signed such a notice. It was a little informative procedure until the chronicle's staff. An attack was reported. Later, this unsatisfactory process was thoroughly investigated and all BART crime reports were posted on the public website CrimeMapping.com. But this new approach underestimates the extent of the incident and will not prompt attention to passengers nor ask the people for help.

The two attacks are not separated. Last year, BART train robberies increased by 45%. In the first three months of this year, 71 incidents occurred against 49 cases in the same period last year.

BART has taken measures to deal with this problem, and the number of patrols from the police installed in surveillance cameras of each vehicle to transportation agencies is increasing. All these are positive momentum to reduce crime and track criminals.

But the public does not fully understand the extent of the problem and what they can do. For drivers who need to know more about defending themselves and other commuters, unfortunate crime reports are terrible. BART is an important service trusted by hundreds of thousands of riders. They do not get the perfect protection they deserve

Consider: Next week, San Francisco will vote for a $ 3.5 billion Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) commuter train system for track upgrades, updated safety features and new trains. Currently, 2/3 BART trains run from 1972. Atlanta will vote to raise its sales tax by 0.9% to fund transportation projects and MARTA corresponding to BART. Chicago votes for a tough decision to sell guns illegally. Portland, Oregon vote for bonds to make affordable housing

Last week, after a short night drink, I entered the BART station of a public train system with my friend in the Bay Area. We have talked about video games, metrics, and how friends are drinking away too far in the bar. When I got off the escalator, the conversation stopped. When wearing on the floor, the tile is a mountain of urine, recently made water is still clearly flowing. Urine does not silence us. It is about five people, lying on the wall, rigid, on the urinals floor.

Oscar Grant was shot at Fruitvale BART station after it was suspended due to a train dispute around 2:15 am on January 1, 2009. There are not many explanations because there are many witnesses and videos in this case. However, the police involved in shooting were only accused of unintentional murder. Both shootings and sentences caused protests and riots in the Bay Area. First of all, Michael Jordan is a wonderful actor. I like to meet him on the screen. I did not know Oscar Grant individually or verbally, so I can not tell if he portrayed his justice correctly, and I never asked after the movie was over. However, I can tell myself that he painted the people in the Bay Area very well.