Photo by Thomas Hawk
This morning I saw two uniformed police officers on my line (49-Van Ness) for the first time. It made me wonder if the sting operation as reported by SFGate will be taking place in the near future in the Mission. The Chronicle reported that the sting operation earlier this week happened at the Ingleside station.
According to Rachel Gordon via the City Insider blog:
A posse of San Francisco police officers worked a special undercover operation on three Muni bus lines earlier this week and by the end of it had issued 22 citations for such minor offenses as back-door boarding, littering at a bus stop, alcohol and tobacco possession by minors and on-board eating.
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Written by eugenia
Tags: 14-Mission, 49-Van Ness, 9-San Bruno
They need to spread out more. This kind of thing works not because they might catch even a tiny fraction of the jerks, but because it makes people realize that there is a non-zero chance of them getting caught being a jerk and perhaps rethink their plan.
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How long is that gonna last? When all the hype is over, they’ll go back to doing what they usually do and board, get the numbers they need from the operator, not even look around the bus, and one block later get off to get back into their patrol car.
We need a police force dedicated just to the transit lines. We need transit police.
If we had had that, maybe…just maybe that poor child wouldn’t have gotten stabbed. At the very least, the cameras would have been working as the transit police would have been invested in all the cameras working.
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eugenia Reply:
September 28th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
I agree that the cameras should work on the bus. And from the short time that the police were on the bus that I happened to be on, it seemed uneventful. they didn’t walk over to the back of the bus or anything.
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