Should LA Metro get its own police department to fight crimes and drugs on trains, platforms and buses in LA County?
LA Metro’s board of directors voted on Thursday, June 22 to pursue the creation of an in-house transit police department that would replace contracts with its current law enforcement agencies.
LAPD Senior Lead Officers Andrew Cullen and Camille Sosa remove a rider with a shopping cart off a Metro Red Line train on Wednesday, June 28, 2017. LA Metro Board will consider starting its own Metro PD at its board meeting on Thursday, June 22, 2023. By an 11-0-1 vote, with Fourth District Supervisor Janice Hahn abstaining, the board directed CEO Stephanie Wiggins to draw up a full-fledged plan for implementing a Metro Police Department with its own officers, investigators and special operations teams.
If approved in 2024, it would put an end to contracted patrols from the Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and the Long Beach Police Department. The first two departments have been enforcing the law on trains, stations and buses for decades. Whittier City Council member and Metro board member Fernando Dutra said he hoped an independent policing department would provide better deployment of officers and make the system safer for riders. “We have someAn intensive public safety crackdown at the crime-infested MacArthur Park/Westlake B Line Station has reduced crime and complaints from the public, a sign thatis working.
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