Capital Metro has secured the location of its first police department headquarters and is ready to spend millions on rent and renovations to expand the transit agency’s mission into law enforcement. | KUTNathan
Capital Metro is leasing 9,246 square feet of space at 8200 Cameron Road to install the agency's first transit police station. The department will occupy part of the largest building in the Cameron Center office park.
But CapMetro, facing a barrage of complaints about safety from bus drivers and riders, has kept the project on track by promising a friendlier police department with a focus on customer service and de-escalation.A CapMetro bus on Guadalupe Street at the University of Texas. The transit agency provides about 80,000 rides on an average weekday.
But skeptics wonder how this police force would be different than any other police department in Central Texas.CapMetro have that no other transit agency in the country has that will make what they're doing different?" said João Paulo Connolly, organizing director with the Austin Justice Coalition."I haven't seen anything in CapMetro's plan that gives me hope that what they're doing is going to be significantly better, kinder or more progressive.
In June, CapMetro hired former Sugar Land Police Chief Eric Robins to lead the department. Robins moved to Austin from the Houston suburb after retiring from a law enforcement career spanning more than three decades. The controversy over holding cells was the latest issue to rankle critics of a transit police force. Capital Metro added to the confusion by first saying the holding cells were required by state regulators, only to"Holding facilities amount to nothing more than jails and only serve to perpetuate an already-unequal system," said Meme Styles, co-founder of the nonprofit group Measure and a member of CapMetro's public safety advisory panel.
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