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CRIMINAL ACTIVITY <br />• Trespassing Penetration of organizational security system can increase vulnerability to <br />criminal mischief, theft, workplace violence, and terrorist attack <br />• Vandalism/Crindnal mischief <br />Includes graffiti, slashing, loitering, or other such events that damage buses, bus stops, <br />shelters, transit facilities and/or organizational image. <br />• Theft and burglary <br />Includes loss of assets due to break-in to facilities and into vehicles as well as employee <br />theft, and can threaten information assets, property assets, and organizational image. <br />• Workplace violence <br />Includes assaults by employees on employees, passengers on passengers, and passengers <br />on employees including menacing, battery, sexual assault, and murder. <br />• Commandeered vehicle <br />The taking of a transit vehicle to perpetrate a crime and the taking of hostages as a <br />negotiating tool. Puts the lives of transit employees and passengers at risk. <br />TERRORISM <br />• Dangerous mail <br />Chemical, biological, radiological and explosive devices delivered through the mail put <br />the lives of transit employees and occupants of transit facilities at risk, and have the <br />potential for damage of facilities and equipment. <br />• Suicide bombers <br />Internationally, transit systems have been common terrorist targets. American transit <br />systems are not immune. The major inherent vulnerabilities of transit are that transit <br />systems by design are open and accessible, have predictable routines/schedules, and may <br />have access to secure facilities and a wide variety of sites, all of which make transit an <br />attractive target. <br />• Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) <br />Activities could involve the use of conventional weapons and improvised explosive <br />devices or bombs on transit vehicles, within transit facilities or within the environment <br />of the transit service area, putting the lives of transit employees, passengers and <br />community members at risk. Such events could require the use of transit vehicles in <br />evacuation activities. <br />• Weapons of mass destruction <br />Aftchmenl number 5 \n <br />F-5 Page 324 <br />