San Francisco: Black Public Officials Bemoan Blacks Make Up Nearly Half of BART Riders Getting Citations for Fare Evasion
Paul Kersey
DCDirtyLaundry.com
December 23, 2019
Previously on SBPDL: Pattern Recognition a Greater Sin Than Black Criminality: BART Officials Protecting Black Criminals from “Racially Insensitive Commentary”
A glimpse of what’s coming in 2020? Hint: the state-mandated concept of black privilege trumping the enforcement of the law. [Nearly half of BART fare citations go to black riders, but police say system prevents profiling, San Francisco Chronicle, December 19, 2019]:
BART’s high-profile quest to cut down on its fare-evasion epidemic has produced dramatic racial disparities, newly released records show, with nearly half of proof-of-payment citations going to African American riders.
Agency officials, however, said the effort to dissuade fare cheats has built-in guards to ensure enforcement is fair and that groups of riders are targeted in a particular place at the same time, without regard to their appearance.Of 12,207 citations doled out from July 18, 2018, to June 30, 2019, roughly 46% were given to people who identified themselves to BART proof-of-payment officers as African American, BART data show.
According to BART surveys, African Americans account for 12% of BART riders, while white people comprise 44%, Asians make up 23% and Latinos account for 18%.A similar racial disparity was seen last year from March to the end of August, when BART staff released a report showing that African Americans accounted for 47% of people cited.The new figures were first revealed by transit activist Chris Arvin.
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