Transit police on buses "24/7"

**Dexlin** · March-12-14, 12:23 AM

Oh, come on. Stop being pedantic. While the buses are in service, they plan to have police on them. What I find weird is that people seem to think that this [[the need for transit police) says something about Detroit when even the article is clear in that Detroit is basically the only system its size without a dedicated transit police presence. Still, until DDOT is spun off as a seperate entity like transit agencies just about everywhere else in the country, it's going to be hard to run a system dependent directly upon a city budget, even when the city's budget is healthier. I've been trying to rack my brain for another large city where the area's premiere transit agency is a literal city department directly dependant upon the city's general fund, and I can't think of any off the top of my head. This is an usual set-up. This really could have been posted in the existing transit thread, though. It's not worthy of its own.

**stasu1213** · March-13-14, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by Dexlin

Oh, come on. Stop being pedantic. While the buses are in service, they plan to have police on them. What I find weird is that people seem to think that this [[the need for transit police) says something about Detroit when even the article is clear in that Detroit is basically the only system its size without a dedicated transit police presence. Still, until DDOT is spun off as a seperate entity like transit agencies just about everywhere else in the country, it's going to be hard to run a system dependent directly upon a city budget, even when the city's budget is healthier. I've been trying to rack my brain for another large city where the area's premiere transit agency is a literal city department directly dependant upon the city's general fund, and I can't think of any off the top of my head. This is an usual set-up. This really could have been posted in the existing transit thread, though. It's not worthy of its own.

I had been asking the same question. The water dept is an entity unto itself so DDOT could be one as well Let the money go back into the system