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Although crime \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Crime-stats-show-where-surge-in-BART-robberies-is-11108092.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is up\u003c/a> on the system, the transit agency's crime rate pales in comparison to that of some of the communities it serves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's drawing attention to crime on the system's trains right now is a series of high-profile crimes and a pair of recent BART decisions regarding what it discloses about offenses that occur on BART property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those decisions involves whether to release video of recent mass robberies on BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other centers on a decision by the agency's new police chief, Carlos Rojas, to halt the distribution of detailed narratives of crimes on BART and instead give brief generic reports of offenses through \u003ca href=\"https://www.crimemapping.com/map/agency/454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CrimeMapping.com\u003c/a>, a commercial online incident reporting system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he fact BART police produced a detailed daily crime log may come as news to most people. The log had only a few hundred email subscribers. But it served as a tip sheet for the news media and an alert to concerned members of the public. And in comparison to CrimeMapping.com, it gave detailed descriptions of crimes and suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is one example of the difference. First, by way of \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/11/bart-police-chief-crime-reports-released-to-public-on-case-by-case-basis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the East Bay Times\u003c/a>, a copy of BART's daily crime log from June 3:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bartlogs.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11567666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bartlogs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bartlogs.jpg 620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bartlogs-160x179.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bartlogs-240x268.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bartlogs-375x419.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bartlogs-520x581.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take a look at the first item in that report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sexual battery -- Lake Merritt Station\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6/3/2017 2232 hours An officer responded to the station agent's booth to meet with a female victim who reported a male subject who had off-boarded from a train had reached under her skirt to grab her buttocks. The female described the person as being a Black male adult, 6', medium build, with a short buzz cut, wearing a light blue t-shirt and dark jeans. The male suspect fled out of the station via the 8th Street stairwell. An area check was conducted and the suspect was not located. L15 1706-171.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Now, after I've drilled down to the week in question and filtered out all the Oakland Police Department crime reports for the area, here's how CrimeMapping.com displays the incident:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11567674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11567674\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15-800x382.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15-800x382.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15-160x76.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15-1020x487.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15-1180x564.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15-960x459.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15-240x115.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15-375x179.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15-520x248.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15.png 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen shot of the CrimeMapping.com entry for a sexual battery complaint logged by BART police on June 3, 2017.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You can click on that image for a larger version of the screen shot and a better idea of what's on that page. But the description of the crime is now \"Sexual Battery,\" period. The address is given as the 800 block of Madison Street in Oakland, not Lake Merritt BART. And the circumstances -- information it would be helpful for other riders to know -- have vanished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not the only problem. The two other incidents reported at Oakland BART stations on the June 3 crime log -- one at MacArthur, one at West Oakland -- don't show up at all on CrimeMapping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Rojas has defended the adoption of CrimeMapping as a move to a \"modern\" crime-reporting tool that other agencies use. He has also said the site could be a challenge, \"especially if you're not technology-savvy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to reporters Thursday at BART's Powell Street Station, he offered another justification for the change: Compiling the daily log took up too much time in a police agency that is seriously understaffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of our problems is that we don't have enough officers out in the field, out on the system,\" Rojas said. \"And that log -- I'm not aware of any agency that creates a log in that detail and sends it out to folks -- it would take two to three hours a shift and usually four to six hours in a 24-hour period for a lieutenant to put that together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Rojas conceded that CrimeMapping \"falls short\" when it comes to its crime narratives, and he repeated assurances he's given BART board members that the department will work to improve that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]hen there's BART's video controversy. To understand that, it helps to go back 18 months to an embarrassing -- some would say scandalous -- moment for the transit agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2016, a man aboard a San Francisco-bound train shot and killed a fellow passenger at BART's West Oakland Station. The incident \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/21/bart-says-it-will-install-surveillance-cameras-on-every-car/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">exposed the fact\u003c/a> that virtually all of what looked like security cameras on the system's trains were merely boxes with flashing lights that looked like they were recording something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disclosure prompted BART to launch a crash program of installing cameras, and was well on its way to finishing that project when the first of a pair of headline-grabbing incidents occurred at BART's Coliseum Station in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/12/bart-cops-investigating-weekend-train-robbery-in-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">late April\u003c/a>, a crowd of teenagers jumped fare gates at the station and rushed aboard a train that was stopped at the platform. They robbed several passengers and beat up one of them before fleeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/BART-robbery-mob-was-waiting-and-train-doors-11133988.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subsequent reporting\u003c/a> on the incident disclosed that only five of the nine cars on the train -- not including the car where the attack occurred -- had working surveillance cameras. However, video was captured on the station's platform and fare gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 30, \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/07/06/another-teen-robbery-aboard-bart-train-at-coliseum-station-but-victim-ok/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a similar incident occurred\u003c/a> aboard a train at the station, with police reporting about a dozen teenagers robbing a passenger of a mobile phone, then fighting with a passenger who pursued them and managed to retrieve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple salient points about the April 22 and June 30 incidents: The earlier attack was described in a BART police crime log, which alerted reporters and led to widespread media coverage within 48 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since the district had replaced its daily log with CrimeMapping.com weeks before the June 30 episode, its only public description of the crime was \"Robbery: first degree-strong arm, hands, fists, feet etc. Incident #1706-1626.\" The story, featuring an off-duty security guard who confronted a group of teenagers and retrieved a stolen phone, didn't become public until the San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Another-violent-teen-robbery-on-BART-in-Oakland-11268585.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broke it\u003c/a> five days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That left BART with some explaining to do, both internally and externally. What was up with CrimeMapping? Why hadn't the agency issued a press release about the second Coliseum robbery?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kerry Hamill, BART's assistant general manager for external affairs, set out to answer those questions in \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/07/09/bart-withholding-surveillance-videos-of-crime-to-avoid-stereotypes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a July 7 memo\u003c/a> to the agency's elected board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CrimeMapping, she wrote, \"has increased the efficiency, accuracy and transparency of our crime reporting.\" If members of the media were dissatisfied with it, Hamill said, it was because many reporters were unfamiliar with the CrimeMapping interface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing why there was no press release on the June 30 incident, Hamill said it wasn't a serious enough matter to warrant an alert to the media:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Media Department has criteria for whether to issue a press release, and this incident did not meet them. The robbery was thwarted by the victim’s fellow riders, then the assailants were all detained and identified thanks to a bolstered police presence at Coliseum station. No property was taken, and no injuries required medical attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no benefit to riders, criminal procedure, BART police investigations, or the District generally to elevate such an incident with a press release. To do so would be grossly out of step with other transit jurisdictions and municipal governments, and would paint an inaccurate picture of the BART system as crime-ridden when incidents of crime on transit, including BART, are fewer than in the surrounding communities. The new mapping tool presents crime in a context of what is occurring outside our stations—in the days following the recent attempted robbery, there were over 118 assaults and 33 robberies in the immediate area. All of these incidents were ignored by local media.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From there, Hamill headed for deeper water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Disproportionate elevation of crimes on transit interfaces with local media in such a way to unfairly affect and characterize riders of color,\" she wrote, \"leading to sweeping generalizations in media reports and a high level of racially insensitive commentary directed toward the District through our social media channels, email, and call centers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the BART directors, Contra Costa County board member Debora Allen, wrote back asking for a clarification. \"I don’t understand what role the color of one's skin plays in this issue,\" Allen wrote. \"Can you explain?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps thinking she was writing for an audience of one, Hamill did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The social media reaction to the original Coliseum incident in April was startling in the level of racial profiling that it prompted,\" Hamill told Allen. \"The General Manager got a call about the incident on her voicemail that used racist and incendiary language that made my mouth drop. Many posts used patently offensive language that often involved racial slurs (no news articles ever referenced the race of the offenders yet some members of the public leapt to their own conclusions). Some telephone calls and posts even involved vague threats. The media has proven its tendency to highlight material in the most inflammatory way possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither she nor Allen had mentioned surveillance video to this point in their exchange. Then Hamill offered this observation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If we were to regularly feed the news media video of crimes on our system that involve minority suspects, particularly when they are minors, we would certainly face questions as to why we were sensationalizing relatively minor crimes and perpetuating false stereotypes in the process.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]H[/dropcap]amill is talking about stuff that actually happens in the world. It's undeniable that we in the media do gravitate toward crime stories, the more sensational and fear-inducing the better. Racial stereotyping is real and was rampant after the April 22 \"mob\" robbery at Coliseum BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hamill's statements managed to plow into a crowd of politically and culturally explosive topics: race, people's sense of personal safety when they're out in public, crime and punishment, the public's right to know what their institutions are doing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen, the BART director who called attention to Hamill's comments, said in an interview earlier this week that though she hasn't seen the available videos of the BART Coliseum robberies, she wants BART to make them public. She says it's a matter of transparency, of making the public aware of how such incidents can occur on the transit system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not asking for video of every phone snatching to be shown on the nightly news,\" she said. \"I'm asking for the video of the larger attacks to be shown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether there was a way of alerting the public to crime dangers on BART through some other means -- written reports like this one, for instance -- she said she didn't think so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think people pay as close attention to a written report,\" Allen said. \"I think it (video) has a different value.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART Board President Rebecca Saltzman, who represents a district that includes parts of Berkeley and Oakland, said she recognizes that there's public dissatisfaction with the amount of crime information the district is releasing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A regular BART rider herself, she said she feels safe when riding the trains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm often riding BART late at night or alone,\" Saltzman said. \"But I feel more secure on BART than on many city streets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But staying alert is key, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to be aware, just like you should be aware when you're walking on a city street,\" Saltzman said. \"It's important not to get lost in your cellphone or your tablet, especially if you're sitting by a (train) door. ... You should behave the same way you would in any public place and know unfortunately there is a potential for crime, even though overall it's quite safe.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those decisions involves whether to release video of recent mass robberies on BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other centers on a decision by the agency's new police chief, Carlos Rojas, to halt the distribution of detailed narratives of crimes on BART and instead give brief generic reports of offenses through \u003ca href=\"https://www.crimemapping.com/map/agency/454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CrimeMapping.com\u003c/a>, a commercial online incident reporting system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he fact BART police produced a detailed daily crime log may come as news to most people. The log had only a few hundred email subscribers. But it served as a tip sheet for the news media and an alert to concerned members of the public. And in comparison to CrimeMapping.com, it gave detailed descriptions of crimes and suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is one example of the difference. First, by way of \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/11/bart-police-chief-crime-reports-released-to-public-on-case-by-case-basis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the East Bay Times\u003c/a>, a copy of BART's daily crime log from June 3:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bartlogs.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11567666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bartlogs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bartlogs.jpg 620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bartlogs-160x179.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bartlogs-240x268.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bartlogs-375x419.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/bartlogs-520x581.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take a look at the first item in that report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sexual battery -- Lake Merritt Station\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6/3/2017 2232 hours An officer responded to the station agent's booth to meet with a female victim who reported a male subject who had off-boarded from a train had reached under her skirt to grab her buttocks. The female described the person as being a Black male adult, 6', medium build, with a short buzz cut, wearing a light blue t-shirt and dark jeans. The male suspect fled out of the station via the 8th Street stairwell. An area check was conducted and the suspect was not located. L15 1706-171.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Now, after I've drilled down to the week in question and filtered out all the Oakland Police Department crime reports for the area, here's how CrimeMapping.com displays the incident:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11567674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11567674\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15-800x382.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15-800x382.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15-160x76.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15-1020x487.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15-1180x564.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15-960x459.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15-240x115.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15-375x179.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15-520x248.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/07/Screenshot-2017-07-14-10.50.15.png 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen shot of the CrimeMapping.com entry for a sexual battery complaint logged by BART police on June 3, 2017.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You can click on that image for a larger version of the screen shot and a better idea of what's on that page. But the description of the crime is now \"Sexual Battery,\" period. The address is given as the 800 block of Madison Street in Oakland, not Lake Merritt BART. And the circumstances -- information it would be helpful for other riders to know -- have vanished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not the only problem. The two other incidents reported at Oakland BART stations on the June 3 crime log -- one at MacArthur, one at West Oakland -- don't show up at all on CrimeMapping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Rojas has defended the adoption of CrimeMapping as a move to a \"modern\" crime-reporting tool that other agencies use. He has also said the site could be a challenge, \"especially if you're not technology-savvy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to reporters Thursday at BART's Powell Street Station, he offered another justification for the change: Compiling the daily log took up too much time in a police agency that is seriously understaffed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of our problems is that we don't have enough officers out in the field, out on the system,\" Rojas said. \"And that log -- I'm not aware of any agency that creates a log in that detail and sends it out to folks -- it would take two to three hours a shift and usually four to six hours in a 24-hour period for a lieutenant to put that together.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Rojas conceded that CrimeMapping \"falls short\" when it comes to its crime narratives, and he repeated assurances he's given BART board members that the department will work to improve that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>hen there's BART's video controversy. 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The robbery was thwarted by the victim’s fellow riders, then the assailants were all detained and identified thanks to a bolstered police presence at Coliseum station. No property was taken, and no injuries required medical attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no benefit to riders, criminal procedure, BART police investigations, or the District generally to elevate such an incident with a press release. To do so would be grossly out of step with other transit jurisdictions and municipal governments, and would paint an inaccurate picture of the BART system as crime-ridden when incidents of crime on transit, including BART, are fewer than in the surrounding communities. The new mapping tool presents crime in a context of what is occurring outside our stations—in the days following the recent attempted robbery, there were over 118 assaults and 33 robberies in the immediate area. All of these incidents were ignored by local media.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>From there, Hamill headed for deeper water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Disproportionate elevation of crimes on transit interfaces with local media in such a way to unfairly affect and characterize riders of color,\" she wrote, \"leading to sweeping generalizations in media reports and a high level of racially insensitive commentary directed toward the District through our social media channels, email, and call centers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the BART directors, Contra Costa County board member Debora Allen, wrote back asking for a clarification. \"I don’t understand what role the color of one's skin plays in this issue,\" Allen wrote. \"Can you explain?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps thinking she was writing for an audience of one, Hamill did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The social media reaction to the original Coliseum incident in April was startling in the level of racial profiling that it prompted,\" Hamill told Allen. \"The General Manager got a call about the incident on her voicemail that used racist and incendiary language that made my mouth drop. Many posts used patently offensive language that often involved racial slurs (no news articles ever referenced the race of the offenders yet some members of the public leapt to their own conclusions). Some telephone calls and posts even involved vague threats. The media has proven its tendency to highlight material in the most inflammatory way possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither she nor Allen had mentioned surveillance video to this point in their exchange. Then Hamill offered this observation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If we were to regularly feed the news media video of crimes on our system that involve minority suspects, particularly when they are minors, we would certainly face questions as to why we were sensationalizing relatively minor crimes and perpetuating false stereotypes in the process.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">H\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>amill is talking about stuff that actually happens in the world. It's undeniable that we in the media do gravitate toward crime stories, the more sensational and fear-inducing the better. Racial stereotyping is real and was rampant after the April 22 \"mob\" robbery at Coliseum BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hamill's statements managed to plow into a crowd of politically and culturally explosive topics: race, people's sense of personal safety when they're out in public, crime and punishment, the public's right to know what their institutions are doing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen, the BART director who called attention to Hamill's comments, said in an interview earlier this week that though she hasn't seen the available videos of the BART Coliseum robberies, she wants BART to make them public. 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"content": "\u003cp>The workforce at the \u003ca href=\"http://goldengate.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District\u003c/a> is aging. About 42 percent of its administrative staff are eligible to retire in the next five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norma Jellison handles the district's scattered real estate holdings. She's a division of one, and she expects to retire after this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jellison says that when she leaves, \"it's important for me to be able to pass on my knowledge to the person who's taking over my position.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under current district policy, there's not much she can do to train her replacement. The district can bring in a new hire only after an employee has left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Managing Director and CEO Denis Mulligan says it's time for that to change. He supports altering agency policy to allow some positions to be filled up to six months before an employee retires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's valuable to have some overlap, so there can be a transfer of institutional knowledge,\" Mulligan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://goldengate.org/board/2017/agendas/documents/2017-0525-RulesComm-No3-ApprSuccessionPlanning.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The policy\u003c/a> would be applied only in select cases, says Mulligan, \"in circumstances where the employee is interested in participating.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mulligan says that the relevant unions are aware of the potential change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Bowker, a spokeswoman for \u003ca href=\"http://www.ifpte21.org/chapters/golden-gate-bridge-district\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 21\u003c/a>, the union representing most of the agency's professional staff, said they have not been contacted about the possible change, and have not yet formed a position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Thursday afternoon, Mulligan's staff could not confirm whether IFPTE had been contacted specifically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate Bridge District directors take up the issue on Friday. More formal union negotiations could follow if they approve the policy change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is not unique among transportation agencies facing an aging workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approximately 42 percent of BART employees are eligible to retire today. Spokeswoman Alica Trost said BART sometimes makes hires before a position is vacant \"on a case-by-case basis.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m. Friday, May 12: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police say they are still sending beefed-up patrols to Fruitvale, Coliseum, San Leandro and Bay Fair stations almost three weeks after a group of 50 or so teenagers robbed passengers on a train at Coliseum Station on April 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Saturday night incident punctuated a period of increased crime on BART. From January to March, crime rates in the system jumped 22 percent compared to the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police say they had already increased patrols in Oakland starting mid-March, before the robbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the incident, the department instituted what it calls \"emergency staffing\" -- all BART police are required to work an extra day each week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Dublin family attacked on the train is seeking $3 million from BART. Their attorney, Paul Justi, says the agency \"was grossly negligent in failing to ensure the safety of the passengers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justi says that the youths pounded on the doors and windows of the train before the operator allowed them to board. He also says that better communication with the Oakland Police Department could have prevented the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A BART spokesperson said that since the robbery, the transit system's police department has been working to improve coordination with other agencies, including OPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police have arrested two teens suspected in the robbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:45 p.m. Friday, April 28:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police say they've made their first arrest in connection with last weekend's mass robbery at Oakland's Coliseum Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency, which reported earlier this week that it had used video from a train car and the station to identify \"multiple suspects\" and obtain arrest warrants, said officers took a male juvenile into custody on robbery charges early Friday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/27/bart-police-chief-spike-in-crime-preceded-teen-mob-robbery-at-coliseum-saturday/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Times quoted\u003c/a> BART's acting police chief, Jeffrey Jennings, as saying the suspect is a student at San Leandro High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say the incident, which occurred about 9:30 p.m. last Saturday, involved dozens of teenagers who jumped fare gates and barged onto a train that had just arrived at the platform. BART has said seven people were robbed and at least two passengers were beaten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've never had anything of this scale,\" Jennings said in answer to questions from BART board member Lateefah Simon at a Thursday night meeting. \"We've had several independent [incidents] of two to five to 12 -- nothing this large.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennings added that the crowd of juveniles, which BART says included both males and females, had been at a party in East Oakland that had been broken up by gunfire. He said not all of the crowd of youths present during the incident were involved in the robberies and assaults captured on video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No -- not 50 of these kids were committing burglaries and robberies at that time,\" Jennings said. \"There was a group that were, and there was a group that were watching. ... The vast majority of kids -- they fare-evaded and they're watching, probably to call out when the police got there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennings told the board that the incident came amid a 22 percent increase in crime in the first quarter of 2017, as compared to the same period a year earlier. That spike had already prompted BART police to increase officer overtime and focus \"crime suppression\" efforts on areas in San Francisco, Oakland and Pittsburg, Jennings said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, the department's attention had moved to the Fruitvale, Coliseum, San Leandro and Bay Fair stations \"due to an increase in juvenile activity,\" Jennings said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that since March 11, BART police had arrested 19 people ages 12 to 21 \"working in concerted groups of two or more up to five to seven\" -- groups he suggested were involved in strong-arm robberies similar to those of last Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/SqCOsdEf6zk\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terence McCarty, BART's acting deputy chief, told KQED on Friday that the department will institute emergency staffing in response to the increase in crime. That means all of BART's 175 or so officers -- about 30 fewer than the department's authorized strength -- will be required to work overtime -- an extra day each week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, April 26:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police say they've identified \"multiple suspects\" in last weekend's mass robbery aboard a train in Oakland -- IDs the agency says were made possible by video from cameras aboard one of the train's nine cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terence McCarty, acting deputy chief for the BART Police Department, said surveillance video recorded at the Coliseum station's fare gates, on the platform and aboard a train car showed 45 to 50 youths were involved in the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven passengers were robbed and at least two were also beaten and required medical attention in an episode McCarty said took a total of four minutes. He said BART police arrived at the station within three minutes of receiving the first report that a robbery had occurred. By that time, he said, the suspects had already fled the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART's midday Wednesday statement on the investigation did not say exactly how many suspects have been identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because the investigation's ongoing, I'm not at liberty to say how many\" suspects have been identified, McCarty said. \"But we're pleased so far with the ones we've been able to identify and we expect to identify more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART said police are seeking arrest warrants and that investigators from partner agencies, including the Oakland police, have helped in identifying suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART began installing cameras on its train cars after a murder aboard a train at the West Oakland Station in January 2016. After the killing, it came to light that trains had been fitted previously with mostly camera decoys, not working cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency says it will finish installing cameras on its entire fleet by July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Monday, April 24:\u003c/strong> BART police and investigators from several other agencies are trying to identify those involved in a Saturday night incident in which 40 to 60 youths took over a train car at Oakland's Coliseum Station and robbed and beat passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial BART police summary of the incident -- reported at 9:26 p.m. -- says dozens of juveniles jumped the gates at the station, dashed upstairs to the platform and rushed onto at least one car of a train headed to Dublin-Pleasanton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say a total of seven passengers were the victims of strong-arm robbery. Items taken included five mobile phones, a purse and a duffel bag. Two people were beaten by the robbers and were treated by paramedics for head and facial injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A bunch of these teenagers started banging on the door,\" said Justine Lin, who reported losing her iPhone in the robbery. \"Initially we were just kind of confused because it was very loud, a lot of commotion. I thought they were just messing around, horsing around, just being loud.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"A BART train at Oakland's Coliseum station, where 40 to 60 youths took over a train car and robbed and beat passengers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-800x510.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-960x612.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-240x153.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-375x239.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A BART train at Oakland's Coliseum Station, where 40 to 60 youths took over a train car and robbed and beat passengers. \u003ccite>(Paul Sullivan/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lin, 27, who was on her way home from San Francisco, said passengers began screaming as the youths began grabbing items from people on the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They started hitting passengers and stealing their stuff,\" Lin said. \"They were really attacking one family of three. ... They were hitting the dad a lot on his neck and on his head, they were trying to grab his phone. They hit the mother -- they stole her purse and her phone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lin said she was not harmed when one of the attackers grabbed her phone and ran. She said the entire episode lasted 30 to 60 seconds. Police say the suspects ran from the station and dispersed into the surrounding neighborhood. No arrests were made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said the agency's investigators are enlisting other agencies to try to track down the attackers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are in the process of pulling all the various surveillance images available to us and sharing them with Oakland police, Oakland Unified School police and Oakland Housing Authority to help identify them,\" Trost said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that since the suspects are all believed to be juveniles, the images would not be released to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trost said six of the nine cars on the train had working security cameras. However, since victims could not say for sure which car they were on, police are in the process of looking at images from all six of the cars equipped with cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART is in the process of retrofitting all of its 600-plus cars with cameras, a process it says will be finished by July 1. The agency made that move after a murder last year led to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/21/bart-says-it-will-install-surveillance-cameras-on-every-car/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the disclosure\u003c/a> that most trains carry only \"decoy\" cameras -- nonfunctional boxes, with red or green lights on them, that don't record or transmit anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lin -- one of the passengers victimized Saturday -- said the episode and apparent lack of security cameras on trains has left her feeling uneasy about riding BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I do need to go downtown, to San Francisco, I will BART,\" Lin said. \"But I'm kind of scared to now.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>When BART developed its budget for the current fiscal year, which runs from last July 1 through this June 30, it made what seems like a natural assumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency had seen several years of dramatic growth in the number of passengers using the system, especially on weekdays. So staff estimated that, even though there were signs that ridership growth was slowing down, the system would continue to see more people board its trains during this fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For BART managers, the agency's board of directors and system patrons alike, the number of people riding is more than a matter of academic interest or personal comfort. Train fares are BART's biggest single source of cash, and they're a key factor in the agency's annual budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As things have turned out, the slowdown in ridership growth BART saw in early 2016 has turned into an actual decrease in the number of people using the trains. 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Other proposals include automating trains so they no longer require an operator, raising parking fees and imposing a new fee on Silicon Valley employee shuttles that pick up and drop off passengers at BART stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Carter Mau, the head of BART's office of planning and budget, said the board will have to go beyond these measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The sum of all these categories together will not be able to address the deficit we are facing,\" Mau said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told the board it would need to consider steps like raising the district's base fare -- the minimum amount it charges for a ride ($1.95, or $3.20 for the shortest transbay trip) -- and reducing the discount for youth and senior passengers. He said the district could save money through better timing of its allocations for long-term capital projects. And he noted that the agency has already imposed a freeze on hiring 160 approved positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mau added that some major service cuts might be necessary for BART to save its budget shortfall. That could involve eliminating the first hour of weekday service, which now begins at 4 a.m., and cutting direct early evening service from San Francisco to Richmond and Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Saltzman, the BART board president, said she's concerned that a cycle of reduced service, reduced ridership and reduced revenue would threaten the district's ability to continue reinvesting some of its operating income for capital projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reducing service \"should be the absolute last thing that we consider,\" Saltzman said. \"I think it would be a really big mistake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member John McPartland, who has an extensive history in emergency services, echoed that sentiment. \"In medical terms, we call that circling the drain, and it leads nowhere good,\" McPartland said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debora Allen, a board member elected in November as a budget hawk, said the agency needs to address its long-term retiree pension and medical costs. 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