Leading to a significant drop in ridership. We are live at the lake merritt bart. Reporter heres the thing, but it says that they have hired more people that they have hired all of last year. Even before this critical grand jury report. The alameda grand jury says that this is killing ridership on bart, homelessness. What it is rushhour, it is really bad. Reporter other people say it is that what it is. I would rather take bart. Part of the of the hesitations about taking it . No. Reporter one not . Why should i . Reporter ridership has declined from his 2016 peak of 128 million to 118 million expected this year. They say the crime on bart is more than double, but you have to put all of that into perspective. We have over 400,000 passengers each day. Your likelihood of being involved or even witnessing and incident of aggravated assault or robbery, statistically are very small. Reporter nonetheless, the grand jury says from 2014 to 2018 robberies are up 120 . To 349 last year. Aggravat
Murdered. And, it is just sad. Reporter police said the gunmans wife, daughter and niece were able to escape and say the suspect used a handgun to shoot several people inside. Officers used a bearcat to help rescue a man and woman from the home with been shot at least once each, both died in the hospital. Cortez says she never saw any problems with mr. Van khuat or his relatives. And says violence is never a way to settle a dispute. He shouldve went to the authorities or whatever lawyer he is working with and set up taking it out on other people. That is not right. It is common sense you dont hurt other people because youre not getting your way. I just feel like, you know, he should bring that drama somewhere else. Reporter chi dinh tas wife was able to escape by jumping a neighbors fence and hiding in another house. Please have not commented about the new revelation and we try to talk to mr. Van khuat about all of this he was not at home. We are live in southcentral san jose this even
Reporter in a scathing report of the Alameda County grand jury accuses the Oakland Unified School district of having a broken culture. Concluding the district is not doing justice or a 36,000 students and 87 public schools. Ray souza is on the grand jury. It is not you can point to one thing and say they did this wrong. It is pervasive. The board, the leadership, the management, the people that work there. Reporter the report cites a range of problems including mismanagement, favoritism, disregard for authority among midlevel management and a lack of accountability. Financial instability was also highlighted. The grand jury finding oakland unified wasted millions of dollars, pointing to lack competitive Business Practices and poor contract management. One example, nine building projects halted because of overspending including the most egregious of construction project at Fremont High School that was 51 million over budget. These kids deserve an education and there is money there to do
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