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Members of the BART Board of Directors are requesting the transit agency explore the possibility of restricting the role and responsibilities of BART police officers.

BART could soon limit the role and responsibilities of its own police force. The agency announced Thursday it will put together a proposal to stop relying on police for issues relating to homelessness, drug abuse, and mental illness. The idea was proposed today and approved by seven of BART’s nine board of directors as part of the agency’s new $2.4...

Members of the BART Board of Directors are requesting the transit agency explore the possibility of restricting the role and responsibilities of BART police officers.

The family of Oscar Grant wants BART director to step down, saying the she tried to defend a police officer for killing Grant in 2009. Sharon Katsuda reports.

On Thursday, BART staff are expected to present the board of directors with the agency’s proposed 2021 budget, which calls for eliminating 19 new officer positions within BART’s police force, according to documents obtained and reviewed by the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit.

BART directors on Friday morning are expected to take a look at the issue of racial profiling of riders.

A 17-year-old male who was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being shot by BART police at the El Cerrito del Norte station on Saturday afternoon, is expected to survive, the transit district said Sunday morning.

An EMT student has credited fate in the rescue of an overdose victim at the Civic Center BART station Monday, BART officials said in a statement.

BART Interim Police Chief Ed Alvarez acknowledges his police force of roughly 170 officers is not large enough to adequately protect passengers. He hopes to hire about 100 additional officers over the next five years, but that is contingent on receiving significantly more funding for his department. Senior Investigative Reporter Bigad Shaban reports in Chapter 3 of DERAILED.

BART’s new General Manager Bob Powers has a long term safety plan to boost the agency’s police force by about 100 officers and install new barriers at each of BART’s 48 stations. But it’s unclear whether the agency will be able to secure the millions of dollars necessary to make those changes and protect passengers. Senior Investigative Reporter Bigad Shaban...

An attorney is filing a lawsuit on behalf of a man who was allegedly racially profiled by BART police in Walnut Creek last week, the attorney for the man said Wednesday.

BART officials have announced via Twitter that all trains are once again moving after a series of delays throughout Thursday afternoon.

A total of 40 police officers have been hired by BART this year alone because of review that recommended an increase of hires over a five-year period.

Someone was stabbed in the leg on the platform of BART’s South Hayward station on Tuesday evening and the suspect remains at large, according to the transit agency.

BART’s 24th Street station in San Francisco was closed for more than an hour Tuesday night because of a person on the tracks who possibly had been struck by a train, BART officials said.

The man killed Friday in what sheriff’s investigators believe was a dispute between two acquaintances in the unincorporated Contra Costa County community of Pacheco has been identified as 29-year-old Erick Ousey of Pacheco.

Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested a man suspected in a homicide in Pacheco Friday. They said the suspect and the victim knew each other.

Violent crime on BART more than doubled over the past five years, according to a new report.