For Chanda Litten, light rail in Sacramento is the way to get around although she was sometimes faced with characters who made her uneasy. “It’s really dark, and you see some undesirables,” she reported to a local TV station. “It doesn’t happen often, but when it does it can be very scary.” Norm Leong, the head of Regional Transit Police in Sacramento, California, plans to improve the system through use of more video and patrol coordination with local police.
Chupeta was even less lucky on his transit ride in São Paulo, Brazil, when the notorious drug kingpin was arrested after security video integrated with facial recognition compared him against images stored on various databases of the metropolitan police, prosecutors and Interpol.