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> Just a question to speculate on: Why isn't the
> Oakland Police Department patrolling BART stations
> more heavily?

Irrelevant. If BART police can't patrol their own facilities, then BART police need to be abolished and it's employees terminated. OPD can't wipe it's own ass, you expect it to hand BART a roll of toilet paper?

> Would BART have to pay an off-duty police officer
> the overtime rate to stand watch at a station?

They already do that! Why should BART cops be paid overtime to perform basic duties?

> And possibly BART doesn't want to do that?

BART cares about it's image first, its bottom line second. That is all.

> Are there private security folks at stations?

NO.

> I'll have to see if the answer is given in some of
> the news reports.

The news isn't honest about race, class, gender or history, why would you expect to glean anything from what the media reports about black youth terrorizing BART patrons? I mean, as smart, educated and experienced as some of the more senior posters here are, the fact that some of them continue to believe the Russiagate nonsense for example, is indicative of regular exposure to mainstream media sources.

It doesn't matter what you think, it matters how you think.