Sheriff Deputies Enforce New TAP-to-Exit Program at Santa Monica Station
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- Опубликовано: 16 янв 2025
- SANTA MONICA, Calif. (September 3, 2024) - The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has launched its TAP-to-Exit Program at the downtown Santa Monica E Line station, expanding the initiative following a successful pilot at the North Hollywood station. This new effort is aimed at enhancing security, reducing fare evasion, and improving the overall safety of the transit environment for all riders.
Santa Monica was chosen as the first location for this expansion due to the city's ongoing collaboration with Los Angeles County and Metro, focusing on improving public safety and addressing the challenges posed by unauthorized train riders in the downtown area. Santa Monica Vice Mayor Lana Negrete was present at the station to observe the program’s kickoff. She engaged directly with the deputies on site and shadowed them during their sweeps through the trains, reminding riders that they had reached the end of the line and needed to exit.
Metro has deployed a range of personnel to support the new program, including Metro Ambassadors, the Metro Outreach Team, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Mental Evaluation Team (LASD MET). These teams were on-site today, offering outreach and assistance to passengers. The LASD MET, consisting of a deputy sheriff and a licensed mental health clinician, specializes in crisis assessment, intervention, and targeted case management. They are trained to defuse potentially violent situations and can initiate involuntary psychiatric hospitalization for individuals in crisis under the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (LPS). The goal of this co-response model is to reduce the use of force, minimize unnecessary hospitalizations, and avoid incarcerations of severely mentally ill individuals. The team also provides in-service training on de-escalation techniques, crisis negotiations, and managing mental health incidents.
Metro Ambassadors play a vital role in supporting riders by connecting them to resources, reporting maintenance and safety concerns, and ensuring a welcoming atmosphere across the Metro network. They are part of a broader safety plan that includes law enforcement, homeless outreach workers, mental health support teams, and cleaning crews. Additionally, Metro's Homeless Outreach Teams engage with unhoused riders, providing them with support and linking them to appropriate resources.
The TAP-to-Exit pilot program at the North Hollywood station demonstrated significant success, with a 40% decrease in incidents such as fights, drug use, and graffiti. Surveys from that pilot showed that 91% of riders felt the station was cleaner, and 86% felt safer. The expansion of this program to Santa Monica aims to build on these positive results.
As the program begins, Metro will focus on educating riders about the new requirements during the first week. Starting September 10, passengers who fail to pay their fare may face citations and fines. Santa Monica Police Chief Ramón Batista emphasized the importance of such initiatives, stating, "Metro programs like TAP-to-Exit, combined with the efforts of our officers, are crucial for achieving a safer community."
The program's rollout also includes increased security measures, with Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputies and Metro Armed Security conducting comprehensive sweeps of the station. Deputies play a dual role in enforcing fare compliance and maintaining public safety while also providing outreach to passengers. These efforts are part of a larger strategy to deter criminal behavior, reassure commuters, and restore confidence in the Metro system.
Los Angeles County Board Chair Lindsey P. Horvath noted, “Expanding the TAP-to-Exit program to the Downtown Santa Monica E Line Station is an additional way Metro is improving customer experience and safety. We encourage everyone to use public transit and benefit from these enhancements.”
Passengers are encouraged to remain vigilant and report any security concerns through Metro’s Transit Watch app or by contacting Metro security directly at 888.950.7233. For emergencies, they should dial 9-1-1.
The new TAP-to-Exit Program, along with the presence of Metro Ambassadors, outreach teams, and enhanced law enforcement, underscores Metro's commitment to ensuring a safe, clean, and welcoming environment for all transit users while promoting sustainable public transportation options in Santa Monica.
That is the safest transit stop ------ until the media event is over.
Ahahaha, you already know
There are more press members than cops 😂😂😂😂😂
Reminds me of a movie when Nazi troops searched for escaped Allied POWs
Lol facts
@@WZD10016Papers now. 🤣
Bunch of bull shit… just for the cameras. They need to prosecute criminals
Exactly so petty
Hollywood academy award should hand over Oscars to these salary thief
@@IanTrump1008Why?
With some of the stabbings lately, I think that’s what they’re doing! This is not the whole force! Duh!
@@yogiman4293 what stabbings ? One lady on the redline in north Hollywood?
This is for show. Instead of 20 officers at one station, how about 2 officers at 10 stations? Metro will still be free for homeless and criminals.
for sure. More police than people using the train. Gov waist as usual.
Nah, that makes too much sense. We need 5 more officers in that one station!
Who cares
It works. It worked in North Hollywood. Maybe they will expand tap out to the entire lines.
And you came to this conclusion from just watching footage of a single station? Weirdo.
Tap to exit is a start, but I suggest the compressed air deployed ejector seat program for best results.
eject-o seat-o cuzzzz
..”Like TOP GUN Maverick “..🐖💨🇺🇸
😂
but then they' start taxing us for the single-use parachutes too, lol
@@Makinja What parachute？？
Propaganda with no purprose.
Come on, don't be like that!
@TheBlackbelair don't be like what, honest?
@@johnthomas1422what’s the propaganda I don’t understand
@@adrianlopez9371 the propaganda is the government has allowed this to happen with prop 47 and now our tax dollars are going to pay a bunch of sheriffs to monitor it and they’re acting like they’re being tough on crime. That’s the propaganda.
@@worldlife9834 bingo !!
Meanwhile, Target right across the street sees constant shoplifting.
They contract with the sheriffs to patrol the rail system...if this is Lapd territory then The sheriff don't have jurisdiction.
Basically that's an LAPD problem. I for one appreciate sheriffs on transit
Where's Charles Bronson when you need him? Lol
I’d settle for a Bernhard Goetz at this point…😂
Yeah! I was thinking the same thing. 😂
Everyone's asking.
Just waiting to jump for real joy.
@@jimfitz1432 Where's Charles Bronson when you need him? Lol
@@Ken-lp9qt Yeah! I was thinking the same thing.
Just posturing for the cameras lets see if it will actually last.
It will not. The cameras will be gone, and Metro will have to adjust their forever budget shortfalls.
As long as fool voters keep voting for stupidity on the Board of Supervisors, this will continue to fail. L.A. is a zombie-city.
bro you sound stupid it’s been like this for months
This is stupid. Homeless , Dirtbags, and Criminals don’t use the required Tap card to enter or exit.
You can't squeeze blood from a turnip, so everyone just sorta turns a blind eye.
Excellent idea. Another tool to reduce abuse of the system. It documents the abusers.
@@b14m23 THE biggest abusers of the system are the ones who run the system itself. Government officials, cops, judges, military . Those are your biggest abusers
…which is the whole point of this program 🙄
They used to issue tickets and would not let them on the train without fare.
Metro = Santa Monica homeless delivery vehicle
Lol
XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
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Not if they can help it!
better than UberEat
SIX PEOPLE watching three people work... The most bloated gov in America. Billions on homeless nobody knows where it went...
Finally correcting a system long neglected
The homeless problem will never be solved unless they demand results. The homeless problem has created many high paying taxpayer funded jobs. If the homeless crisis is solved, those jobs will no longer be needed. Unlike jobs in the private sector, no one gets fired when they don't accomplish their objectives. The problem keeps getting worse, and they just keep throwing more money at it . Nobody gets fired, and they create more taxpayer funded positions. They have metro security, LA sheriff deputies, and now Metro ambassadors. All basically doing the same thing. Until they start holding criminals accountable for their actions and require the homeless to either get arrested for illegal public camping, stay in shelters , accept addiction treatment, and / or mental health treatment or prison. Otherwise, they just shuffle them from one area to another. California has become the place to be for America's homeless, the enable this, they pay people for being homeless, they give them needles and meth pipes and nothing is required of them.
✡️🕎 pockets
A large presence means there serious about this, ok.
It's union work. What do you expect?
Why don't "they" patrol the border like this?
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Because " Border Czar " harris & diabolically incompetent oval office surrogates😈 forbade this practice-!!!😳
They will when trump comes back!
@@antonyjharper31 The local sheriff's can't patrol the border. Only federal government, national guard, and the U.S. military can. Not your local podunk sheriffs department.
They do.. And bother American citizens violating civil rights and the law
@@ptolalibertad no they don’t idiot. I work for department of homeland security and have worked the border. LASD does not patrol the border. San Diego PD and sheriffs never guarded the border either.
The whole system should've been designed from the ground up for fare enforcement. It's unbelievable to me that it's such an afterthought
it always was that way it just got liberal asfck after covid i remember getting tickets if you didnt have the pass they used to have sheriffs at every stop arresting people
Remember the goal is to always create additional layers of bureaucracy - then always come back to the taxpayers:
“We JUST need more RESOURCES, more…more….”
Yet:
People somehow just cannot make the connection between broken fatherless homes and all of the social problems we have today
It’s a scoobydoo mystery!!!
So keep voting for “just” one more daddy government program and continue being in denial.
This is the main issue in every leftist state: people who grewup in broken homes and now are socializing the cost back onto you and everyone else stupid enough to keep feeding the game 😀
there is no need for such heavy law enforcement presence for little money saved vs exorbitant money spent in waste to set up these systems by government contractors
@IanTrump1008 fare enforcement doesn't only save money lost from fare evasion, it also prevents a significant amount of a crime (and associated costs) on the system because the majority of crime is committed by people who evaded the fare. But I agree, they should have designed the system with better fare enforcement physical infrastructure so that they don't need so many officers present
The problem is the homeless invasion of the system. @@IanTrump1008
The gentleman in red didn't tap to exit. So what's the point of this exercise in futility?
GENTLEMAN ???? YOU MEAN , THE BUMP IN RED , ? YES YOU ARE RIGHT !
@@panterpanterpanter993 “Temporarily unhoused”.
Yep they tapped for him
Probably the first time he's followed an order his whole life.
Around 30 minutes in, we're told they're just giving warnings at this time. Which makes this video title feel like click bait since it says deputies are "enforcing" the new program when they really aren't
Our taxes funded the metro, but yet we have to pay to ride the metro.
Same shit I ask myself every City I visit. San Diego, Sacramento, Public transportation should be free.
Then what pays to maintain it?
@@TheVFXbyArt taxes?
@@TheVFXbyArt are you seriously stupid? So what are taxes for? So your saying pay taxes and then pay more to upkeep things.... Taxes on Taxes?
To an old-school sci-fi fan, the visuals are soooo dystopian...
So trueeeeee😂😂😂
THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THEM WHO MAKE IT POSIBLE
It’s sad that Metro has to continually add security measures because of the criminals. You notice with a big law enforcement presence, those types aren’t around. There’s just no way they can allocate that many LA County Sheriffs officers to Metro every day.
True, if only our courts made not worth it for criminals to do their nonsense in the first place, they wouldn't need so many cops to keep the place safe.
They should use volunteers who wear body armor to block fare evaders, troublemakers, and criminals from getting on the trains but the unions probably won't allow that, need to pay everyone a ton of money we don't have. I know I would volunteer.
@@kenw.4539 That would be great in a civilized country, but just how scumbags abuse self checkouts, them
civilians won’t stand a chance.
This is all for show. Once the cameras are gone and most the cops, people can easy just hop those entrances lol
This is just for show, since the Olympic Games are coming to LA, how come they haven't done nothing before
It's because of the Olympic games.
Keep the videos coming brother 🫡
I'm glad to see the sheriffs. doing a great job.
The train delivers criminals into the streets of Santa Monica and dozens of sheriffs watch that one guy high on drugs get off and come into the parks. Is it the city fault or the criminals pretending to be homeless ????? The system is a joke!
It's a free country your ancestors STOLE commiting GENOCIDES and OPPRESSION to maintain it.
You will soon answer for everything!
That’s some expensive security. A 2 million just for that stop.
hell yeah i been waiting for these!
We should expand this system to the boarder as well 😻
"Border"
I don’t why they make this a big deal… this doesn’t happen when I go to Santa Monica and I usually use the unauthorized doors to get onto the platforms. If homeless and drug addicts can ride for free , why do I have to pay? Recently someone was shot and killed on that same train and where was the police when they were really needed? Trains are always dirty , Santa Monica is the only station that has the sheriffs in and out of trains. Even security guards are useless , they block door ways and make it hard for paying customers to get into the train with out holding the doors. There’s so many things wrong with this metro system for them to try focus on only enforcing some tap to exit policy.
damn it's costing us how much to make sure everyone pays their $2? We have a culture problems... economic problems... because our government is failing... too much inflation and too much printing of money for the benefit of the oligarchs in this country while the average person suffers
You want to use a service? Then you pay the cost. No excuses. We can't give away everything for nothing. We make it too easy for those who just don't want to contribute.
But the government expects the people to give everything for nothing 🤔
Angelenos pay for their zombie-city, and they continue to vote for a corrupt Board of Supervisors.
stop your liberal whining!
Youre an example of a moron that comments before understanding the full context. This isnt about 2 measly dollars idiot. This is about safety of ridership in these very essential public transportation routes. The homeless, whom are often deranged and violent, have overtaken taken these routes and it has become very dangerous for public to ride.
❤ Sheriff taking care of business. Thank you
Do you know How many Cops / Security Guards / People from Metro we have at The Pershing Square Station ????
On a Good Day we have 2 Security Guards that do NOTHING BUT LOOK AT THEIR PHONES.....
N O T H I N G !!!!!
Hmmm what are the demographics??…rest my case!!
Wasting my hard earned taxes just to give it to some private owned slave to just stand there. Public transport should be free for everyone. We dont need 90% of the politicians or police we could use that money for something better.
Might as well make it free to ride. Metro's been operating at a loss for years.
Ain’t anything free in this world, someone has to be pay for it.
The next day there was not a single officer there! 😂😂😂😂
THIS IS WHY 95% OF THE STATIONS ARE UN MANNED, NONE OF THESE TRAINS ARE MANNED
Show, show and more show!
God bless the SM Sheriff Deputies.
No, there is no SM Sheriffs deputies, they are LA county Sheriff deputies.
THANK YOU OFFICERS !!!!❤❤❤❤
For what
Enjoy living in a police state reminds me a lot of Nazi Germany. What the hell is wrong with people in this country that just one more step towards controlling every move you make papers please!
Thank God I live in Marin County Ca., we don't need police up here on our bullet train "25mph!". No body rides it because it doesn't go anyplace.
You mean Marin Transit/Golden Gate Transit? That's how homeless and criminals usually get to Marin County. Too bad GGT blocked BART from going across the bridge in the 1960s. Most Marin County residents supported BART going up there.
Give FREE RIDES to the POOR you need it
If i was sheriff id walk the platform myself everyday , every morning , with a camera crew , these police are LAZY AND INCOMPETENT
LEO behaviour is authorized by the police unions, bad police employment contracts, qualified immunity, state laws that shield them from accountability, etc...BAN POLICE UNIONS. It's likely the same corrupt bullshit that prevents the Metro from redesigning the stations to completely prevent fare evasion the second that became a problem decades ago. Probably some SEIU bullshit rules and I'm not anti-union, I'm against ANYBODY with too much power that serves a special interest against the common good whether that's government, the public sector unions, police, etc...ANYBODY!!!! F..K EM!
No-!!! You're the lazy indoctrinated democratic party voter whom is anti-law enforcement-!!!😈
Lol..if you were a sheriff, you would be on medical leave!
There are far bigger problems facing our Country today than homeless & poor people not paying fares on transit.
Perfect!! only in santa monica....where the rich people live at!!! nice to see LA county money very well spent in security for the rich communities.
Bring back intelligence led policing.
Fabian, I've been following you for quite a while now and just wanted to say thank you 😊 from the Southern Desert of Utah/Arizona
WOW, what a clean trolley and looks safe. San Diego MTS should take no
nice work LA.
Great. How much is this going to cost??
They HAVE TO do it now because the Olympics are coming
Thank you for your video
City and Metro officials must implement this throughout the greater LA area.
Its seems that resources are only used in higher end communities.
ALL citizens deserve a secure system of transportation and to feel safe in their communities.
I can appreciate LA Sheriffs being out there.. its a start..
Thank you all law enforcement & metro workers! You are appreciated
nobody cares about Santa Monica...nobody will go there any more, so is Metro train wreck
The next day they are gone and crime returned.
Nothing better to do except protect thier coffers
The most legal gang in America
Protecting the government income, not the people from other crimes.
It's not TAP and exit issue. When homeless use the trains as shelter but reaches to the end-of-line station like in Santa Monica, Metro employees kick them all out regardless they have the TAP card or not. Metro employees shouldn't even allowed the homeless to reaches to any of the end-of-line stations, folks!!! End-of-line stations are dumping grounds for homeless!!!!
I don’t see them doing this at the Universal Studios train station or NOHO station at all
santa monica, alta california Mexico 🇲🇽
We need those deputies to be in the field preventing violent and atrocious crimes. C'mon man!
There's atrocious crimes being committed on the metro daily.
@@Greysurfacewhalerado yeah the street performers on the metro are atrocious. LOL!!
My hat is off to the LA county sheriffs for an outstanding job
Keep up the good work 👍😊
Nope they don't even patrol the trains
What work?
Your papers please...your papers...
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so why charge ppl twice? get a device that can check their tap card!
They are not getting charged twice, the gate is the device that checks.
@AutonomyCentral yes, thank you. I figured that one out later in the vid.
@@AutonomyCentral And the bastards in control will adjust those things so that EVERYONE will be paying TWICE----AT EVERY STATION!
Just like those disgusting freight cars in London!!
Good to see their presence.
Feels like the Gestapo! "TAP CARDS OUT" "IDENTIFICATION PLEASE" "SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS"!
Meanwhile here in Sydney, you’d be lucky to see the cops on train stations and on buses
Why there is too many tax payers wasting money in there instead of arresting drug addicts or other criminals on the streets
The problem is California's keeps electing soft on crime "progressive" politicians. Until criminals are held accountable and put in prison, they have no reason to stop committing crimes.
The Supreme Court ruled they do not serve and protect the public. They can do whatever they want, and it's usually whatever serves their best interest.
The sheriff female at 40:00 is awesome. I can see why they have her in a position like that.
I was really impressed with all of them in this video.
Camera's are there what do you expect
Thank u all for your service
The job can sometimes suck, but it matters and it does make a difference for the public.
Thank you for the video, nice to see everybody again!
Thank you to the officers and social workers that make riding the Metro safer. The officers at the Vermont/Wilshire emergency entrance made a noticeable difference while they were there. I can guess this is a training / test phase in Santa Monica, so hopefully we can get officers at more stations as other comments have mentioned.
I feel bad for the deputies they have to deal with idiots every day
Are you talking about their coworkers?
Enjoy watching your channel. Nice glimpse of life in VB/SM, some interesting characters out there!
So glad to see this video SMCU 📹 good to see the law enforcement doing a gd job 👍 good work 💪
This is the system that works quite well in S. Korea
10:28 That man has a pet spider on a leash.
lol
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As a former Santa Mohican (homeless Santa Monican), I know this is pure ceremony. The Metro trains function as a homeless shelter for a fair amount of ill, probably drug addicted, homeless people. Every season or 2, the police make their presence known for a weekend at the 4th St Metro stop. They will claim they are enforcing payment, but will do nothing. On two separate occasions, I've literally jumped the entrance gate in front of them just to see what would happen, nothing. I support efforts to maintain the health and safety of the Metro and its users, but it is lacking. Same time next year, they'll be doing the same thing expecting different results which I doubt will happen.
The tsunami of taxpayer treasure to pay for all of this is overwhelming.
If everyone were to pay for their ticket this wouldn’t have to be necessary to begin with. So apparently it is. The police is enforcing the law. Second, this is not a tsunami in costs, the average cost of having 6x police officers (at 80k a year) would have been $ 2000.- a day total. Not really a tsunami. Get your facts straight before making an uneducated comment.
Newsom's world
When your state economy is ranked in the top ten of the world…
YOU’RE ABOUT TO HEAR “HEADCOUNT HEADCOUNT “ OR “CHOW CHOW CHOW” AND WHO COULD FORGET “YO, C.O.” (Correction officer)
Thank you officers, you are appreciated🙏🏻
no need more government wasteful spending and garbage bureaucracy can not function anything right
The whole world has gone crazy
Even if a "criminal"doesn't tap to exit, they'll still be able to visit SM and "commit crimes " with a citation in their pocket.
or use the exit at the previous stop
@@manuelsalas8046 THE SECURITY GUARDS ARE TAPPING THEM OUT!! INSTEAD OF ARRESTING THEM FOR NOT PAYING WHEN THEY BOARDED! ITS A SHOW FOR THE MINIONS THAT VOTE DEMOCRAT OVER & OVER AGAIN.
NO Free RIDES!!
Words from ORTEGA salsa. Need CHips
Who's it hurting n
@@lisalittle4826 Dirty White Boy
@valcaron HOW FAR WILL THEY GO WITHOUT TICKET 🎟️
@@delbarfield8624 By the same "token", NO DOUBLE-PAYMENTS FOR ONE RIDE EITHER!!
Mr Red Shirt tough guy, that cop would flatten him in a heart beat!!
What ever happen to the California guardian angels when bad guys tried to rob people they would kick their ass
What fantasy land you talking about don't never exist.
@@vengeancewillbemine3440 look them up they protected people on the bus and other places they been around been on the news on tv
Guardian Angels can't do anything. If they hit someone, they'd be sued into oblivion. They're no law enforcement.
Dam
How old are you?
Those guys are criminals
Public Intox is Legal now in Santa Monica...
They will never ticket a homeless without a pass, only a taxpayer without a pass. Film that and use it in court if you ever get a ticket.
You are so right. Only taxpayers get a fine or punishment! It's not really the fault of the deputies. The govt. of L.A. City & County are corrupt.
Alot of homeless work
@@Jim-q6wevery homeless person I know does some type of work
Now get rid of Gaston and Newsom and start holding the crooks accountable 😊
Gascon
Thank you for your service. This venture will require consistency which is one of Metro's weaknesses.
The subways are the most terrible in Los Angeles, there is so much crime, so many men urinating doing drugs, so many people there cause mess They should focus on safety. It's scary, scary, scary, scary, scary, getting on the trains in Los Angeles.
It’s because of welfare people
The fare gates look very easy to crawl through or vault over. The fare gates look very similar to the original ones on the SF BART train system. BART has begun installing new fare gates that are about 2 meters high. LA can have this new TAP-to-Exit Program but it won't be effective until they fix the fare gates. In Queensland Australia they have a very effective Tap On/Tap off system for their light rail. Tapping on or off is done on the platforms. There are no fare gates at all. But they have a LOT of staff checking people's fare cards while on the trains. Your card will get checked & there are big fines for fare evaders!
The fare gates are much worse than the original BART fare gates with their little bars. Both fare gates are easy to hop over.
Diversty hires oh boy
Absolutely love S.M. ✊🏾
I guess if Im going to ride from Downtown to Long Beach next February when I visit LA, Id better make sure I get plenty of sleep beforehand, so I don't nod off and end up going to jail.
Preparing for LA28 the Olympics in LA
Thank you officers!
🖤💙🖤
You can check on but you can never leave
WOW, what a clean trolley and looks safe. San Diego MTS should take notes
female deputy has cake 😭👌
Should be patrolling on the trains
A big joke
Well, kudos to LEOs, and ancillary members of the tap to exit team, thanks to transportation workers and mental health workers, too...appreciated, but isn't this kind of ....I don't even have the words to express the....mega diligent semi freaky educational intervention...on an inner city train ride...
This won’t work
Yes, it will