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Efforts to restore some of the commission’s original power have been ongoing, as city officials and local activists examine civilian oversight agencies in neighboring Bay Area jurisdictions to see which models might best suit Berkeley.
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While Black people constitute 12 percent of BART customers according to the most recent data, which is from 2015, the report presented to the BART Police Citizen Review Board at its June 11 meeting found that among all the use-of-force incidents in 2017, 50.9 percent involved Black males and 14.7 percent involved Black females.
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The BART Board of Directors voted unanimously Thursday to approve a $3.5 billion bond measure to improve infrastructure and relieve crowding at stations.
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