Our Community, Our Responsibility
Why this matters: Just as a patient can appear healthy yet suffer from an injury or illness we can’t see, our communities may appear vibrant yet be hurting from the impacts of domestic violence. Healing our communities and preventing continued abuse is not just the task of social workers, teachers, or doctors. It’s up to all of us. To build a safer and more loving world, we have to reckon with not just the hate against our communities but the violence within it.
“We are all capable of change, and we all can do something, even if it’s small.”
Join us: Share these resources with other people in your community who want to see it thrive. Reach out and help others recognize the importance of addressing violence inside our community. When more of us recognize early signs of abuse, we can help protect more people and keep our community safe and healthy.
Here are some questions we can ask ourselves to make sure we’re taking care of each other:
Do we prioritize the safety of women and girls when they are hurt by people in their own family and community, as much as when they are harmed by people from another racial or ethnic group? If so, how can we change this
When someone we care about is hurting someone in their family, obsessing about or stalking a recent ex-partner, or making threats against themselves or someone else, how can we respond?
When you see a young person in your community struggling, isolated, or being put down, what do you do
How can we reach out to our neighbors or elders who are alone during hard times?
How can we intervene if we see abusive or harmful behaviors in public?
Through our partnership with BART, Let’s Talk About Us will reach thousands of passengers each day in more than one dozen stations systemwide, onboard trains serving each BART line, and on bus shelters and billboards in 5 neighborhoods including Chinatown, SoMa and the Mission.
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Use the free BART Watch app to send a private message to police dispatch. An anonymous feature is available. Location services are enabled on the app but can be disabled in “permissions.” When enabled, your location is provided to police dispatch when you submit a report via the app.
Use the train intercom button to speak to the train operator. The call button is along the side platform doors of new Fleet of the Future cars, and at the end doors, near where you walk from one car into another, on the older legacy cars. On Fleet of the Future cars, the train operator will get an automatic video feed inside your train car when the intercom button is pressed. Older legacy cars do not have this feature.
Use the white phones located on the platforms to connect to a station agent. This phone will roll over to the Operations Control Center which is staffed 24/7.
Seek out any BART employee. Look for employees with a BART logo on their uniform. Frontline employees have received training on handling crisis incidents.
Call BART Police dispatch at 510-464-7000. You will speak to a police dispatcher. Always call this number or 911 for crimes in progress or emergencies.
Text BART Police dispatch at 510-200-0992.