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
SF News Video: Excessive Force Allegations After BART Police Punch Handcuffed Man In Face An arrest by BART police has sparked claims of excessive force after video depicting an officer punching a handcuffed and prone African American man in the face went viral. CBS 5 reports that
SF News BART Seat Hogging? Expect A Criminal Background Check, Fines Starting this September, BART passengers taking up more than one train seat may be subject to police questioning, criminal background checks, fines, and even arrest. So reports CBS 5 as BART police share
SF News Why Was The Interim Oakland Police Chief Canned So Quickly? There is a lot of instability right now in our community which is bringing us together on the issue of gun... https://t.co/T9EzHvpiOW— D Mendoza Consulting (@Champ4Justice) June 16, 2016 Yesterday's
SF News BART Settles Case For $1.35M Involving Former Model Whose Face Got Slammed To Ground By Cops A very drunken St. Patrick's Day in 2014 turned into a incident of excessive force at the hands of BART police according to a lawsuit that was just settled by BART earlier this
SF News Door-Banger Snarls Wednesday Morning BART Commute A man who was allegedly making a fuss on BART as it traveled through San Francisco has been detained this morning, after his disturbing behavior delayed trains and sent police to the scene.
SF News Fear Of Overreach Keeps BART Board From Passing Fines For Seat Hogs You can still lounge to your heart's content across an entire row of BART seats — at least for now. The vote on whether or not to impose fines of up to $500 on
SF News BART Director Proposes $500 Fine For Seat Hogs Loungers, luggage-bearers, and other folks who spread out into more than one seat beware: If BART Director Joel Keller has his way, seat hogs might soon face fines of as much as $500.
SF News Will $10,000 Bounty Help Police Find The West Oakland BART Train Shooter? Nearly a month after a man was shot and killed while riding BART, it appears the police are no nearer to finding his killer. Will a cash reward help develop a lead to
SF News Suspicious Man At Hayward BART Allegedly Shoots Cop, Then A Body Is Found In His Van Two BART cops went to question a suspicious and nervous-seeming man outside a parking structure at the Hayward BART station on Christmas morning after seeing him walking away from a U-Haul with a