The Regional Transportation District (RTD) in Denver is establishing its own detective bureau to prioritize investigations into crimes affecting public transportation. This move follows previous safety initiatives like open elevator doors, driver shields, and live bus cameras. The three detectives will focus exclusively on RTD-related crimes, aiming for quicker response times and potentially elevating misdemeanor cases to felonies. The bureau is modeled after similar units in cities like Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. RTD, which had less than 30 officers in 2023, now has 95 and plans to add 55 more by year's end.
DENVER — The Regional Transportation District will soon launch its own detective bureau in an effort to prioritize public transportation crimes. This is the latest move in RTD's plan to address crime. Previous safety initiatives included leaving elevator doors open at stations, providing safety shields for drivers, and installing live cameras inside buses. There are around 40 law enforcement agencies across RTD properties, which can often be busy with their own priorities and workloads.
Plus, depending on if we can establish a pattern of those crimes, then we can combine those cases, and now it changes it potentially from a misdemeanor case to a felony level case that we can file to a office,' said Cousineau.It's a concept already in place in other major cities like Washington, D.C. and San Francisco.
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