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DART says it invested $100 million in security and added 100 officers
Summary
DART staff told meeting attendees the agency invested $100,000,000 to improve security, reliability and cleanliness and added 100 transit security officers plus multidisciplinary response teams to assist riders in crisis.
When asked about security improvements, DART staff said the agency had invested $100,000,000 to improve security, reliability and cleanliness across the system and had added 100 transit security officers. "We have invested $100,000,000 to improve security, reliability, and cleanliness on our system," a staff member said.
Staff also described multidisciplinary response teams that connect riders in cognitive crisis with services, and said crime statistics have declined in double digits in recent years; they offered to provide the transit police chief's detailed statistics on request.
