I really don't have a problem with the average DART officer. You guys have a nearly impossible job to do and not nearly enough people to do it. Like many of us, you're overworked, underpaid, and under-appreciated. If I had my way, there would be a lot more of you and you'd be better compensated for making sure that all of us can get to work and home again safely. Since I can't give you anything else, and you'll probably never hear this from anyone else - Thanks!

I really think that all of you would be better served by having DART contract with the member cities for an on going police presence at the train stations, transit centers, and parking locations. I also think that the public would be better served by it as well. There's no reason that officers from the member cities couldn't be routine assigned to patrol those locations and only leave them in crisis situations.

There's also no real reason that DART can't implement some measures to make you guys more effective. CCTV would be one. Restricting access to passenger waiting areas is another. There are others, but this isn't my area of expertise. It is supposed to be DART's though. So far I've not been hearing any proposals or seeing anything done differently. Mostly, I get a lot of insults and name calling in my blog by people who are obviously DART management.

I have been seeing Fare Inspectors more frequently though these last couple of weeks. Of course, that was after I pointed out how much money DART's loosing on fare evasion. Just on person per train stop per day is enough to hire 4-6 of you guys for an entire year, even at Flower Mound salaries.

I'm going to point you back to the whole thing that got this ball of wax rolling in the first place.

I suggest you read this - http://www.dallas.org/node/99

I'm not talking about you personally when I say this.

How, in name of all that good and right, can you claim to have anyone as a priority when you can't be bothered to intervene in a situation like that? Particularly when there was a DART police station in Union Station at the time. All they had to do was get up and walk out to the train. We're in what was probably a life and death struggle and they can't be bothered for 45 minutes.

I'll qualify this by saying that's your dispatcher(s) but the dispatchers are part of the police department. It's also another reason I'm critical of not having the member cities able to respond to calls on DART property. What happened me then should never ever happen to anyone to calls 911.