Nitin Lal

BART police are cracking down on crime, following a months-long uptick in crime and growing concerns among riders. Although there was another report of fare evasion at a Hayward BART station on Wednesday night, the transit agency says that the number of incidents in May and June is down 20 percent in comparison to February and March. Citations are also down nearly 30 percent in the same time frame and field interviews have dropped an estimated 20 percent.

San Mateo police are looking for a man who posed as a county sheriff’s deputy. Surveillance video shows the man walking into the Safeway in the Crystal Springs Shopping Center about 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 24. Employees say the man, dressed in a deputy’s uniform, claimed he was investigating a theft and demanded to speak to someone inside the store’s office, where the money is kept. An employee told the man that no theft had occurred and refused to let him inside the office.