SF News BART Police Puts 12 Officers On Regular Evening Train-Patrol Duty For First Time BART Police are going to be regularly patrolling trains on nights and weekends as part of a new program that launched Monday, and the news has some regular riders going "Really?... Now?"
SF News BART Likely to Launch Unarmed 'Ambassador' Program To Address Quality-of-Life Complaints The BART Board of Directors is inching closer to approving a program that's been in the works nearly two years in which unarmed "ambassadors" will roam trains cleaning up needles and other "biohazards" and providing outreach to the homeless.
SF News BART Director Stirs the Pot With Op-Ed Accusing Management and Fellow Directors of Negligence On Safety BART director Debora Allen, has been an outspoken critic of new General Manager Bob Powers and some of her fellow directors in recent weeks. And last week's stabbing on board a train in South Hayward has pushed her to pen a scathing opinion piece in the East Bay Times.
SF News Civil Rights Lawyer John Burris To File Lawsuit on Behalf of BART Sandwich Eater McMuffin-gate — or whatever we're calling it — continues today as we learn that Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris is filing a lawsuit against BART on behalf of Steven Foster, the man detained last week by a BART police officer for eating a breakfast sandwich.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink McMuffin-Eating Protest Planned Saturday at Pleasant Hill BART Station In a continuing public response to last week's story about a black guy who was handcuffed and cited by a BART cop for eating a breakfast sandwich, a protest is being organized this weekend involving many more breakfast sandwiches at the BART station where all this went down.
SF News BART General Manager Issues Apology To Sandwich Eater Detained By BART Cop Amid public outcry over the black man detained at Pleasant Hill Station by a BART police officer for eating a breakfast sandwich on the platform, BART's new General Manager Bob Powers has issued a public apology.
SF News BART Police Officer Detains and Cuffs Black Man For Eating Breakfast Sandwich On Platform A pair of videos has been making the rounds of a BART police officer having a heated interaction with a rider whom he wanted to cite for eating on the Pleasant Hill BART platform earlier this week.
SF News BART Police Issue New Warning Amid Uptick In Cell Phone Thefts On Trains You've heard the advice before on BART and Muni, but maybe you need to hear it again: Keep your head up and not in your phone if you want to keep from having your phone snatched out of your hands by a thief.
SF News BART Cops Seek Alleged Swastika-Loving 'Star Wars' Fan A man who BART police says has drawn swastikas and racial slurs on trains and stations across the Bay Area will not be charged with a hate crime for the acts, but will
SF News Berkeley Homeless Encampment Near BART Tracks Cleared Out, While Here/There Encampment Stays Residents of the "Here/There" homeless encampment in Berkeley are celebrating today as they were granted a temporary reprieve by a judge, who blocked an attempt by BART police to evict the residents
SF News Things People Do On BART: Pepper-Spray, Carry Crack, Attack, Shave Monday-BART police searching for this man. Accused of assaulting passengers in 2 separate incidents @kron4news pic.twitter.com/hMC0I3TxbT— Will Tran (@KRON4WTran) August 7, 2017 Did BART's decision to stop sending out their
SF News Man Threatens To Kill Everyone On BART Train, Is Allowed To Board By BART Cop A clearly unstable man who had already caught the attention of BART police early Friday morning at North Concord/Martinez BART Station was allowed by one BART officer to board a train full
SF News Some BART Train Cameras Still Using Betamax Format BART continues to have to answer for its aging train car woes, and for its recent spate of crime, and the latest terrible tidbit comes via the Chronicle, where we learn that more
SF News Calls Grow For BART To Stop Hiding Its Crime Problem by Rebecca Cohen When the Chronicle criticized BART in April for failing to alert the public about a mob of 40-plus teens who stormed a train and robbed passengers at Coliseum Station, BART
SF News Never Enforced, BART's Controversial Seat-Hog Ordinance Is Set To Flop To bite a phrase coined by Gary Peterson of the San Jose Mercury News, the revelation that a high-profile quality of life public transit law is basically dead in the water is yet
SF News Security Guard Sought In Powell BART Hate Attack BART police are seeking a man wearing a security company uniform who allegedly launched into a verbal assault and physical attack on a man waiting at a San Francisco BART station. KRON 4
SF News Dublin Family Suing BART For $3 Million Over Mob Attack The first precursor to a lawsuit, which could be one of several or many to be filed in the high-profile swarm robbery two weeks ago that left multiple BART passengers injured and seven
SF News BART Loses $25 Million Per Year To Fare Evasion, And State Law Now Prohibits Citing Minors A new California state law that just took effect in January prohibits BART police from citing juvenile offenders for jumping the fare gates this despite the fact that BART spends millions of dollars
SF News Second Suspect Arrested In BART Mob Robbery After He's Allegedly Seen Committing Another Robbery Details of a second arrest that was made Friday, relating to that April 22 swarm robbery at Coliseum BART, came out late Monday, following on reports of a first arrest and multiple warrants
SF News BART Robberies Are Up 45 Percent; One Arrest Made So Far In Coliseum Station Swarm #BART police arriving for extra shifts tonight pic.twitter.com/mjAfRTAfHt— Lisa Amin Gulezian (@LisaAminABC7) April 30, 2017 In the wake of the wide attention that came to a swarm or "flash mob"
SF News BART Police Interrupt Sexual Assault At Station A man is in custody today after BART police say they witnessed him sexually assaulting a woman at the transit agency's Rockridge Station in Oakland. NBC Bay Area reports that BART police received
SF News Woman Handcuffed And Held Down By BART Police Suffers Miscarriage A pregnant woman traveling to the doctor's office with her boyfriend had a violent encounter with BART police that we reported on in August, and she now says the incident caused her to
SF News Check Yourself, Manspreaders: BART's 'Seat Hog' Ordinance Is Now In Effect Hold onto your butts: BART's new "seat hog" rule is here and it's ready to party. Or be enforced. Whatever. Passed in April, the measure allows BART police to run criminal background checks
SF News There's Been An Uptick In Cellphone Snatchings On BART It's uncertain if the same individual or group of individuals can be blamed, but there's been a spate of cellphone thefts on BART the last two weeks, and BART Police are saying riders
SF News Claims Of Racism Following Violent BART Arrest A violent arrest caught on video at the Embarcadero BART station last Friday has led to allegations of racism — not in the actions of police but in that of an older white man
