Heavily-armed BART police

Saturday, November 6th, 2004

BART Police

These BART cops were on the train on my way home from work yesterday. Protecting BART from those who hate freedom (including freedom of movement, apparently).

This picture sucks because I took it with my phonecam. I had my regular camera with me as well, but I thought it might not be a good idea to surprise heavily armed men with bright flashes of light.

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Comments

kscaldef
November 6, 2004

Damn, that’s a big gun.

I would have gotten the crappy camera-phone shot, then asked them if you could take a picture with the real camera.

shadyl
November 6, 2004

Holy crap! What kind of trouble do you all have on your public transit out there? It’s worth saying again- that’s a big gun!

I sure hope they are holding on tight because if your trains are like our trains on MARTA, the operators like to see how many people they can jolt all around by randomly hitting the brakes for no apparent reason on a regular basis. I can see bad things happening if they weren’t holding on too tightly… geesh…

Yeah. So nice to see they’re keeping you “safe.”

raindrops
November 8, 2004

Can I snake that photo? (not directly from your server, I have my own bandwidth) :-)

kchrist
November 9, 2004

Sure, help yourself. It’s released under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license.

(and now it’s on Flickr, not my own server)

Ofc. Nicey
March 20, 2007

Periodically, BART Police sweep the trains. In periods of heightened security, the SWAT Team deploys to trains and stations. Nothing to worry about, BART Police Officers have not fired a shot for decades.

Kenn Christ
March 20, 2007

Thank you Officer Nicey!

s white
May 18, 2008

good work sharing this phemonon, we have these heavily armed cops in NYC too…

smad
January 6, 2009

guns and nasty goatee.rot in jail

Matt
January 6, 2009

SO what? They are not harassing anyone or anything

Andrew
January 6, 2009

meh, i was in the baltimore airport a few years back and there were several officers wearing even more gear than that strolling around with G36K’s. i actually though it was pretty cool.

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