Criticism and Issues
The New Jersey Transit Police Department is not without its fair share of problems and criticism. In 2002, a study released by the former New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton has concluded that New Jersey Transit's police force is not prepared to handle a terrorist attack. The report said the agency's then 120-member police force lacks the training to protect the 400,000 daily bus and rail commuters. The report, which was completed in the fall of 2001, recommends that the agency should create divisions to monitor troubled train stations and to crack down on fare-beating. The direct response to this was the creation of the Justice Team and an extensive hiring blitz to bring new police officers onto the department. Since the study, the department has considerably added onto its counter-terrorism capability with the creation of many new units and the issuance of better technology to its patrol officers. Each transit police officer is issued a Personal Radiation Detector which can be used to measure radiation.
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