
Violent crime soars on BART, fare evasion costs $25M a year: grand jury report
With the stabbing death of 18-year-old Nia Wilson last summer at the MacArthur BART station in Oakland, the public's attention – and now, the Alameda County Grand Jury - is laser focused on the beleaguered agency. The grand jury's 2018-2019 findings, out this week, shows that Wilson's homicide and the other two men killed that same week in 2018 – while the most violent and high-profile – fall into a larger pattern of violence. Allie Rasmus reports