SAFETY * USA - Keeping an eye on the buses
Lines plagued by violence now getting a police escort
Boston,MAS,USA -The Boston Globe, by Maria Cramer -January 7, 2009: -- Transit Police use video hookups to watch for trouble on buses along routes through Dorchester and Roxbury... They are the most public of venues, traveling city streets with large windows and crowds of students, construction workers, and mothers pushing strollers... And yet the MBTA buses that rattle along some of the city's most dangerous corridors have not been public enough to deter crimes as violent as they are brazen... The primary focus of the MBTA's effort has been Route 23, a line long associated with high-profile crimes and the source of a barrage of community complaints. Transit police have assigned up to three cruisers a day to follow the roughly 16 buses that travel the route daily, monitoring live feeds from surveillance cameras. The agency has also assigned four officers to ride the route during peak afternoon hours, when high school students head home... The T has opted to put officers in the cruisers rather than increase the number of officers on board the bus because it gives police more flexibility to peel away from buses that are not crowded and focus on those with more potential for violence... Each crime stokes passengers' fears, triggering calls for more vigilance, especially when teenagers begin boarding already crowded buses... (On some bus routes, T posts watchful guard - SEE VIDEO: by Jonathan Wiggs and Maria Cramer, production by Chona Camomot/Globe Staff)
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