Report: Crackdown on fare jumpers didn’t make BART safer
The Center for Policing Equity partnered with BART to produce a report that’s skeptical of the agency’s claims.
BART provided no proof for its claim that fare evasion costs up to $25 million a year, with Stout, the advisory firm, estimating that 2023 losses were no greater than $9.5 million. That’s significantly less than the $27.2 million the ramped-up enforcement costs BART in personnel and related fees
— The highly publicized $90 million program of hardened gates didn’t really deal with the main issue of public safety.