BART is holding public events to gather input on the proposed new BART Police headquarters near Oakland's 19th Street station. (Photo courtesy of BART).

BART police Chief Ed Alvarez presented a report to the agency’s Board of Directors on Feb. 27 showing that black BART riders are cited more frequently than other riders for certain violations.

BART recently released the data, showing that black riders received more than half of the citations for “quality of life” offenses, such as fare evasion, disruptive behavior and eating, drinking or smoking on trains, in both 2018 and 2019.

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Eli covers public health, transportation and state politics for the Bay City News Foundation, serves as the main editor of the Public Health and COVID-19 Information Hub and assists with Local News Matters' social media strategy. He has also previously covered local politics in San Diego County as well as college and professional sports across the Bay Area.