Report on BART reveals racial disparity in policing, agency commits to change
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BART’s Police Department is committing to six new measures for more equitable policing, including a new policy on drawing and deploying guns, after recommendations from an outside agency in a long-anticipated report published Jan. 8.Jessica Christian / The Chronicle 2020
BART’s Police Department is committing to six new measures for more equitable policing, including updating its gun use policy, following recommendations from an outside agency in a long-anticipated report published Friday.
The Center for Policing Equity, a research think tank, reviewed BART police data from 2012 to 2017. Its study revealed that BART police were more likely to stop Black people and use force against them. Nearly one in four use-of-force incidents involved police holding or pointing a gun, a majority of times at Black people.