The Metro Transit Police Department plans to outfit officers with body cameras this year as the department tries to increase public trust and erase a reputation among some riders of excessive ...

About 150 transit activists called on LA Metro Thursday, March 28 to scrap plans for an in-house police department and instead spend up to $100 million to hire more unarmed Transit Ambassadors.

Between 1989 and 1997 Metro had its own police, the MTA Transit Police Department. In 1996, the Metro Board chose to merge its MTA police with LAPD and LASD and contract with these agencies for ...

This isn’t a new idea. Metro, and its predecessor agency — the Southern California Rapid Transit District — had its own police department for years. Its officers were recruited, hired and ...