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BART to hire social workers instead of filling police officer vacancies to deal with social problems FacebookTwitterEmail BART plans to use nearly $2 million budgeted to fill six vacant police officer positions to hire social work-trained civilians to respond to homelessness, mental illness and drug addiction that plague the train system. The plan introduced Friday adds a supervisor and 20 crisis intervention specialists to connect people in need with services — twice as many as were approved...

Drug overdoses in S.F. kill 58 people in November as fentanyl-fueled crisis breaks records FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6BART police officer Eric Hofstein displays the Fentanyl he confiscated while patrolling the Civic Center Station BART platform in San Francisco, Calif. Friday, November 20, 2020. As overdoses have skyrocketed in San Francisco during the pandemic, there are questions if the same has happened on BART, long-plagued by drug use on the trains, but which has seen a dramati...