BART police are more than doubling the number of officers patrolling trains to address safety and quality of life issues, officials with the transit system said.

Beginning this week, BART police began deploying eight to 18 more officers on trains per shift in San Francisco and in BART’s core service area. That’s up from 10.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.