Some cameras on San Francisco commuter trains are fake

Are the surveillance cameras on BART trains real or decoys?

Currently, riders might see four video surveillance cameras on every BART auto, but majority are fake as a cheap method of deterring crime.

“When you compare 2015 over 2014, we have 10 percent fewer serious crimes on BART, so we have a good trend in that direction”, she said.

Police on Wednesday released photos of the shooter leaving the station. The photos show the man entering and exiting the BART station, but not onboard the train where the killing took place.

“It’s being portrayed that our cameras on the trains do not work”.

Police Chief Kenton Rainey neither addressed nor refuted allegations in the San Francisco Chronicle report that BART police have no footage of the shooting inside the traincar because the cameras aboard the six-car train were fakes.

But he said for security reasons, he will not reveal which cameras are actually recording.

Rainey also said the layered security system includes surveillance cameras on trains and on BART property. Johnson said that is not soon enough.

“The system is safe”. He acknowledged some of the cameras were decoys, but said, “I’m not going to say how many”. Turns out the train cameras were installed in the late 1990s to combat a costly crime – graffiti.

The chief said the agency’s security works.

Police have not released any footage of the shooting itself. A spokeswoman for BART’s Board of Directors told The Chronicle working security cameras will be featured on every BART vehicle, but the majority of them won’t arrive prior to 2017. They’re helpful, but what about the cameras that could have caught him in the act?

Officials with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which manages New York City subways, trains and buses, have said they are installing hundreds of cameras aboard new buses and trains.

“Our more than 23,000 cameras are across all of our rail cars, buses and stations, all of which are equipped and fully functional”, said an agency spokesman, Jeff Tolman. A spokesman for New York’s transportation workers union said there are no dummy cameras on trains or buses.