Score: 0 (1/11/1)

Contra Costa County Grand Jury • 2017-2018

Contact: Mario Gutierrez Foreperson

Published: May 14, 2018 13 pages

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Findings and Recommendations 8 findings

BART PD controls subscriptions to its daily crime log and does not make the log readily available to the public. There is no permanent link on BART.gov website

Related Recommendations (1)

BART PD should consider providing permanent web links to crimemapping.com and to the subscription form for the BART Police Daily Log on the “BART Police” page (https://bart.gov/about/police) of BART.gov

BART PD provides crime incident reports within fifteen incident categories to crimemapping.com. A crosscheck between incidents reported on the BART Police Daily Log and in the crimemapping.com website suggests that some BART PD incident data is being lost.

Related Recommendations (1)

BART PD should consider reviewing their data upload process to crimemapping.com for process integrity and data completeness within the fifteen crime incident categories reported,

Crimemapping.com offers limited information about crimes that occur on BART property.

Related Recommendations (1)

BART PD should consider offering the most recent 180 days of the BART Police Daily Log reports, with simple text search function, from a permanent web link on the “BART Police” page (https://bart.gov/about/police) of BART.gov

Crimemapping.com provides the public less detailed information about crime on BART than Bartcrimes.com

Related Recommendations (1)

BART PD should consider seeking funds at the next budget funding cycle to deploy more Community Service Officers to patrol BART stations and parking lots.

BART PD is currently operating with about 16 percent fewer sworn officers than its authorized staffing level.

Related Recommendations (1)

BART’s Board of Directors should consider seeking funds at the next budget funding cycle to equip all parking lots and garages with adequate lighting and working video cameras.

Community Service Officers are non-sworn civilian employees that provide technical assistance to BART police personnel and could be assigned to patrol stations and parking lots.

Related Recommendations (1)

BART’s Board of Directors should consider directing maintenance to make cleanliness a priority and improve the level of sanitation in stations, elevators, and restrooms. If additional personnel is needed, a request for funding may be considered for the next funding cycle.

BART parking lots and garages have insufficient lighting and few or no security cameras.

No recommendations for this finding

BART officials and riders are dissatisfied with the lack of sanitation in stations, elevators, and restrooms.

No recommendations for this finding

Agency Responses 2

Government agencies' official responses to this report's findings and recommendations. Click on a response to see the structured breakdown.

BART Board of Directors

August 14, 2018 • 4 pages • 4 responses • Score: 0 (+0, 4, 0) View Details ▾

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4 responses to findings and recommendations

BART’s Board of Directors should consider seeking funds at the next budget funding cycle to equip all parking lots and garages with adequate lighting and working video cameras.

Response: Implemented

Scheduled: Fiscal Year 2020 Score: 0

The recommendation has been implemented. Parking lot and garage lighting funding is appropriated annually in support of a third-party maintenance contract. 5B. Funding for Video Cameras. Response: The recommendation has not yet been implemented, but will be implemented as part of the Fiscal Year 2020 budget process. Based on BART's recent assessment, BART will advance for consideration certain security camera upgrades. That proposed funding will support BART's existing process whereby funds are allocated on an ongoing basis to address security concerns, including video cameras in parking facil...

Response: Implemented

Scheduled: Fiscal Year 2018 Score: 0

BART's Board of Directors should consider directing maintenance to make cleanliness a priority and improve the level of sanitation in stations, elevators, and restrooms. If additional personnel is needed, a request for funding may be considered for the next funding cycle. 6A. Prioritizing Cleanliness. Response: The recommendation has been implemented. Making cleanliness a priority and improving the level of sanitation continue to be a major focus of BART's annual work program. BART funded cleanliness projects in the Fiscal Year 2018 budget, and the approved Fiscal Year 2019 budget prior...

BART parking lots and garages have insufficient lighting and few or no security cameras.

Response: Disagree Partially Score: 0

BART parking lots and garages have insufficient lighting and few or no security cameras. Response: BART partially disagrees with this finding. Parking Facility Lighting. The lighting in every BART parking garage and parking lot has always met safety and security standards in effect at the time of construction. BART currently uses the standards of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), an accredited Standards Development Organization (SDO) that develops its standards using American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved procedures. When BART replaces all fixtures in a facility...

BART officials and riders are dissatisfied with the lack of sanitation in stations, elevators, and restrooms.

Response: Disagree Partially Score: 0

BART officials and riders are dissatisfied with the lack of sanitation in stations, elevators, and restrooms. Response: BART partially disagrees with this finding. Since the last Customer Satisfaction Survey in 2016 where riders indicated some dissatisfaction with cleanliness, BART has increased funding for projects and programs that improve system cleanliness and address homelessness. As a result of these efforts, system cleanliness has improved and this should be reflected in more positive ratings from riders taking the upcoming fall 2018 Customer Satisfaction Survey. BART agrees that...

Police Chief

July 31, 2018 • 7 pages • 13 responses • Score: 0 (+1, 7, -1) View Details ▾

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13 responses to findings and recommendations

BART PD controls subscriptions to its daily crime log and does not make the log readily available to the public. There is no permanent link on BART.gov website

Response: Disagree Partially Score: 0

The BART Police Department partially disagrees with the finding. The BART Police Department agrees that there is no permanent link to the BART Police Daily Log on the BART.gov website, but the Daily Log has been widely publicized by BART and other organizations, and subscriptions are open to the public and to the media which has resulted in hundreds of subscriptions to the service.

Response: Implemented

Due: September 30, 2018 Scheduled: Completed on June 15, 2018 Score: 0

This recommendation has been implemented. On June 15, 2018 links to https://bart.gov/bpdlog and https://www.crimemapping.com have been provided on the BART Police page for anyone to subscribe to the BART Police Daily Log or to access the crimemapping.com data for BART stations.

Response: Disagree Partially Score: 0

Regarding the above finding, the BART Police Department partially disagrees with the finding. The Grand Jury report states, "it (BART Police Daily Log) provides a summary of all crimes committed the previous day," which is not actually the fact.

BART PD should consider reviewing their data upload process to crimemapping.com for process integrity and data completeness within the fifteen crime incident categories reported,

Response: Will Not Implement

Score: -1

The recommendation will not be implemented because it is not warranted. The website and data transfer is working as designed.

Crimemapping.com offers limited information about crimes that occur on BART property.

Response: Disagree Partially Score: 0

Regarding the above finding, the BART Police Department partially disagrees with the finding. While summaries of those incidents captured by the BART Police Daily Log provide more information than what is displayed on crimemapping.com, the most accurate representation of all criminal activity occurring within our District is crimemapping.com.

Response: Requires Analysis

Due: December 31, 2018 Scheduled: Review to be completed by December 31, 2018 Score: 0

This recommendation requires further analysis. The current design of the BART Police Daily Log distribution system does not provide for a connection to the database of historical events that can be searched by the public.

Crimemapping.com provides the public less detailed information about crime on BART than Bartcrimes.com

Response: Disagree Partially Score: 0

Regarding the above finding, the BART Police Department partially disagrees with the finding. Bartcrimes.com displays the same data available through the BART Police Daily log, in which the only difference is the interface in which the data is displayed to the user.

BART PD should consider seeking funds at the next budget funding cycle to deploy more Community Service Officers to patrol BART stations and parking lots.

Response: Implemented

Scheduled: Fiscal Year 2019 commencing July 1, 2018 Score: 0

The recommendation has been implemented. The BART Police Department requested additional funds to hire 4 Community Service Officers for Fiscal Year 2019 commencing on July 1, 2018.

BART PD is currently operating with about 16 percent fewer sworn officers than its authorized staffing level.

Response: Agree Score: +1

The BART Police Department agrees with this finding.

BART’s Board of Directors should consider seeking funds at the next budget funding cycle to equip all parking lots and garages with adequate lighting and working video cameras.

Response: Unknown

Score: 0

Response: Unknown

Score: 0

BART parking lots and garages have insufficient lighting and few or no security cameras.

Response: Unknown Score: 0

BART officials and riders are dissatisfied with the lack of sanitation in stations, elevators, and restrooms.

Response: Unknown Score: 0