And that stems from policies that have been adopted over the last several years that officers believe tie their hands, with respect to doing their job. Reporter she gave examples, as of january juveniles cant be cited for fare jumping. Bart recently passed a sank shoeary policy, and the police have shanktuary policy, and the police have another policy. They fear of being rep remanded for use of force, there is an awful lot of paperwork that occurs, these are the things i am hearing from the officers. Reporter the chief says he is hearing more optimistic news. What i have been getting is a lot of positive feedback in what the future holds. Reporter bart board member, allen, said the department should study why few are applying but the chief wants to focus elsewhere. Because somebody applies doesnt mean they are qualified. I want to spend time and effort on the back end and really compressing our processes for recruitment, testing, and hiring. Reporter if anyone out there is interested i
Reports, the victim decided not to let it go. Reporter he didnt realize the suspect was armed. Luckily he wasnt hurt. One man in custody tonight, his identity has not yet been released. I was glad i didnt get shot. Reporter stacy is talking about some scary moments saturday when he was visiting a friend on gamble court in hayward. I thought i heard my truck start up. I went out to see what was going on. Reporter his dodge ram truck had been stolen. This neighbor saw it happen. We just got in and had some tools bent down, and the truck was gone. Reporter he borrowed his buddys truck to follow the thief down the hill toward hayward boulevard where he caught up to the suspect. I pulled up to the back and said, hey, thats my truck. So and so you, and pulled out a gun and shot. So he took off and i didnt bother to follow after that. Reporter he called 911. Hayward Police Briefly chased the the man through city streets where he crashed into several cars. At one point police say the suspect d
Announcer live where you live, this is abc7 news. It just felt like hi to get in there and help someone, so i did. A man runs into a burning Apartment Building in berkeley. Tonight his quick actions may have saved someones life. Good evening. Im eric thomas. That fire forced evacuations of that entire building tonight. It started just after 7 00 on addison street between sacramento and acton and put out smoke that could be seen for miles. Abc7 News Reporter Alyssa Harrington is here with the latest on this developing news. Reporter eric, one man was critically burned in this fire, but it could have been a whole lot worse if not for the brave actions of one neighbor who ran into this burning building. The fire started around 7 15 tonight. Our emeryville camera shows the thick, dark cloud of smoke over the city. Katherine tippett shared this video of the flames pouring out of a third story unit. Inside that burning apartment was a man lying on the floor and yelling for help. A man who li
Its small, compact and fast moving. Key is how quickly it intensifies off the coast, that determines the rain. We have winter storm warnings or advisories posted. Advisories to the south. These are areas the rain holds on the longest. Even in philadelphia it begins in rain before a change over. Temperatures show the story. We have record highs, philadelphia, 49. 50 in wilmington, allentown 40. The poconos, its now well down to 31degrees. The latest thinking with the storm, the rain will last longer southeast of i95. Philadelphia gets the change over around 6 00, the heaviest amount around the warnin mornin. The heaviest snow to the north. For details on the timing, lets head to adam joseph. Adam . Its hard to bust out the recordsetting warmth we had today. As the system rushes in, 5 00 in the morning, still rain in new jersey and delaware. 5 00 in the morning, rain in southern areas but changing to snow wilmington, philadelphia and in the Lehigh Valley. As we speed it up a few hours la
Its small, compact and fast moving. Key is how quickly it intensifies off the coast, that determines the rain. We have winter storm warnings or advisories posted. Advisories to the south. These are areas the rain holds on the longest. Even in philadelphia it begins in rain before a change over. Temperatures show the story. We have record highs, philadelphia, 49. 50 in wilmington, allentown 40. The poconos, its now well down to 31degrees. The latest thinking with the storm, the rain will last longer southeast of i95. Philadelphia gets the change over around 6 00, the heaviest amount around the warnin mornin. The heaviest snow to the north. For details on the timing, lets head to adam joseph. Adam . Its hard to bust out the recordsetting warmth we had today. As the system rushes in, 5 00 in the morning, still rain in new jersey and delaware. 5 00 in the morning, rain in southern areas but changing to snow wilmington, philadelphia and in the Lehigh Valley. As we speed it up a few hours la