They’ve been sanctioned, monitored, failed, mandated by voters to have an accountability board at the city level that they attempted to revoke last month until it was thrown out…the question isn’t who is watching them. The question is, who is going to stop them? They have been murdering people for 15 years after having been censured by FBI and DOJ.
https://www.portlandmercury.com/cops/2011/01/25/3295300/one-year-ago-aaron-campbell-was-shot
Most of the other members are from outside of Portland, including the police auditor for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, a retired deputy police chief from New Mexico, the senior adviser to the Los Angeles mayor on homelessness, the UCLA police chief and a forensic data specialist.
I am not sure how I feel about this one. Part of me says it should be locally monitored but then again, sometimes outside people are less biased.
BART is an interesting agency. I worked with them often in the past and they seemed like a professional group.
