Bay Area Council pushes for CHP deployment to reduce BART crimes [Video]

After recent attacks on or near BART trains, there are calls to get crimes under control with a renewed effort to deploy highway patrol officers, even though BART leaders say they have a handle on it.

It’s unlikely the California Highway Patrol would get involved with BART, but the Bay Area Council and other AAPI organizers are impressed with the CHP’s deployment in Oakland, where hundreds of arrests have been made.

These groups are worried that crime on BART trains is becoming violent and vicious, and they cite recent attacks, which include one earlier this month, where a man allegedly slashed a woman’s throat at 24th and Mission streets.

There was another attack in July, where police say a man pushed a woman onto an incoming train at the Powell Station in San Francisco.

Most recently, police reported a deadly stabbing on Market Street near Embarcadero station, even though the stabbing did not occur at BART.

“We need to take strong, decisive and immediate …