Trimess

Thursday, January 26, 2023

JANUARY 25

 

EQUIP ALL DRIVERS WITH GAS MASKS NOW!

CALLS BY ME AND PDX SCANNER

TRIMET BOARD TESTIMONIES

 

JAN 24

 


CALLS BY ME AND PDX SCANNER

Defusing tensions on TriMet

 In recent years, TriMet has seen increasing violence towards both operators and riders alike. This is due to many factors, but one of them is the mental health of transit riders. TriMet needs to create policies and training for their staff on how to defuse this kind of violence quickly and peacefully.

“TriMet said they would like to have 65.” Yet this is a step in the wrong direction—it would make TriMet more militant by adding more and more officers on trains, buses and streetcars. Meeting violence with violence will only perpetuate a cycle of militarization.

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