On 8/13/2010 1:41 AM, Steve Pope wrote:
> > wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:12:39 +0000 (UTC), Steve Pope wrote:
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>>> I agree armed transit cops are unnecessary,
>
>> Why? There's more crime in and around BART property than in the Mission.
>> They are like regular police officers. They had already been in two prior
>> incidents earlier in the evening involving guns, and that not unusual.
>
> I agree a police force is in general necessary. What I object to
> is all the individual empire-building police forces in the country,
> each with its own jealously guarded turf. Transit cops, school cops,
> port cops, railroad cops (did you know Southern Pacific runs
> its own sworn police force?).

So what's the railroad supposed to do? Stop at the county border, let
off one set of cops and board another? Or just go without the services
of any law enforcement officer until after the passengers get raped,
robbed, and murdered and the perp has long since scarpered?

> In a situation like the New Years Eve incident where they shot Grant,
> you have a BART police force that feels it needs to prove itself
> during its one big crowd event of the year. This leads to a mindset that
> led to a major problem. If instead is was simply under the jurisdiction
> of Oakland or Alameda County cops, you do not have that sort of
> psychology, or you have less of it anyway.

So what happens when the train moves from one county to another?