is just disappointing. No disrespect to law enforcements, but it's really hard to respect BART police these days. I am not pro-Oscar either. What kind of work ethic do they have to spend less than 18mins of 10hr shift to make themselves visible to public on trains/platforms. Are they overwhelmed with tasks that need to be taken care of or really short staff?

 

link to an article? Somewhat unrelated, but the first round of OPD layoffs recently were community relations/walking beat cops. not the people to cut when you want to change the perception of OPD and build trust.

 

i think the oscar situation was just messed up, but i will give part police some respect they are over there working in some of the highest crime rate cities in the country. i can see why many people dont take them seriously, it is like campus police on a college campus no one takes them seriously.

 

I've had conversations with BART officers in the past, and from what I've been told, they actually patrol and make house calls to the surrounding areas of BART stations too. So I can imagine in many of the East Bay cities with high crime rates, they are pretty busy following up on other calls.

 

yeah, i always see them around cities, never realyl by bart stations.

 

always in their BART POLICE car or truck.....NEVER on a train, agreed.

i took bart from from a friends at 1, last train. in oakland the train sat for 25 minutes while waited for others to get from other points, before crossing under the bay. bart police walked up and down the OUTSIDE of the car. and that was it!

i take bart ALL the time and never see them in the tunnel.

 

haha im in the san leandro/east oakland area a lot and ive ridden bart frequently over the past 5 years or so, and i have seen bart police maybe once at a bart station out of the hundreds of times iver seen them in the 510

they are glorified security guards with pistols who dont need them and dont know how to use them imo

i didnt see the news report ktvu did, but i heard the commercials for it on 107.7

 

over paid security gaurds

 

This.

Funny thing is I moved th SF and took BART on and off for a year before I even heard that BART had police, I never saw one before and outside of the Oscar video still havent, and Ive been in SF and used bart 5 years now

 

thats funny about not knowing BART had their own force... lol

 

ya I mean I dont commute on bart so I only use it maybe a couple times a month, but when the whole Oscar thing happened my first thought was, "Oh, so bart has their own police?" I wasnt really surprised, but I had just never seen them before.

 

haha yea bart man. feel bad for mehersile he is in a tough situation. people who think grant was doing nothing wrong need to look at the bigger picture, mehersile was probally pooping his pants fearing for his life!