Why Is RTD Not Talking About The Serious Issue's That Need to Be Immediately Addressed Denver Colorado USA Public Transporation

Hello everyone.

Today is, uh, March 30th, 2026.

I'm gonna be talking about the, uh, an incident that happened yesterday on the 29th with, uh, RTD Security and Police,

um, at the, uh, Nine Mile Station.

Also,

I am going to be talking about the, uh, general manager and CEO of RTD.

Uh, for those of you who are new, RTD stands for Regional Transportation District, which is, uh,

the, uh, public transportation department for Denver Metro

here in Colorado, United States of America. Also, if you guy- if you want more, um, information, and also links to my various social media channels, please visit my website, www.audittheauditor.com. Let's get started.

Okay, yesterday was Sunday, March twenty-nineth, 2026. It was real beautiful outside. Um, you know, I was riding the train,

and, uh, I was getting on at Nine Mile Station.

I noticed there was a large police presence, like

I, I had been to that station multiple times, but I haven't seen like a police presence there. They have some weird like parking structure there. I've seen people getting high in the... People, like junkies and stuff, getting... Smoking dope by the stairwells and stuff. But

I mean, I don't know if that would warrant that big of a police presence.

But, um,

so there was like three,

three RTD police officer vehicles. Um, I have a video up of, up on it online, um, and there was a, uh, a field supervisor for RTD. I don't know if that was RTD police. It looked more like it was kinda like

for, um, R- for RTD employees who are, who are not officers, 'cause of course, if it was like a police,

uh, like a somebody who's a, um, a supervisor for the police, they would be riding around in a different type of vehicle. So, um,

yeah, so I was like kinda curious. I was recording that. I didn't see anybody, no police officers, uh, in the vicinity. I looked at the bus driver, some people around. Didn't look like anything was going on, so I said, "Maybe it's happening on the platform." I was gonna jump on the light rail anyways, so I, um,

I, uh, um,

you know what I mean? I, I, I, I got on the, uh, the train.

So I was getting on the train, so I said, "You know, I better start recording before I, uh,

before I, uh,

go up there on the platform." So I jumped on the elevator, got up there, got on the platform. I saw a, a lot of police officers. There was about,

say, six police officers on the platform. I've never seen... And this was on the R line,

uh, the R line which goes, uh, kinda along the two-two-five,

um, highway here in Denver Metro. So I was in Aurora. I was-- I think I was technically in Denver.

It's weird if you look at the county line. Anyways, Denver, Aurora, right there by the border county line, where it, it goes through Aurora and Denver, the R line.

So

the counties are so messed up in this metro area, it's not even funny. If you look at a map, you're like,

"It look like some crackhead drew this stuff, or some kid with a crayon."

Anyways, sorry, I digress.

So I jump, I jump on there, I start recording the police. One of them, they kinda look a little sketched out. I'm like, "Whatever. I'm gonna record you." Um, I didn't, I didn't harass them, you know. I'm not trying to be that rude of a First Amendment auditor, you know. I'm not dissing any First Amendment auditors who, who do that. Um, I shoulda got closer to them and kinda like got their badge numbers or something, you know, just to, just for record, you know. Not for anything, not 'cause they were doing anything wrong. They were just standing around.

Anyways, I assumed they were gonna jump on the trains. I'm telling you right now, I've ridden that R line a lot. I've never seen a police officer on, physically on the train or even on the, on the platform.

Um, there needs to be police officers that get on that train. Now, RTD just hired I think like 100 police officers. I don't... Don't fact, fact check me on this, 'cause I don't know for certain. I don't know when they're gonna... If they,

if... When they're being active in the field, 'cause I know they have to go through training, but I think it was in late 2026-- 2025 or in 2026

when they hired these 100 additional officers. Now, it doesn't appear that way because every time I get on the train, I don't see a police officer. I've only seen a, a police officer once on the train, and that was on the A line from downtown Union Station to the airport. So I've n- like I said, I never... There, there needs to be police. Security,

I only see, I only see a security presence on the A line, which is like RTD's prized

line, you know. It's their prized possession. It's the most popular light rail ridden because it goes from downtown to the airport. So you got all the rich people downtown that are flying to go see mama and dada or go on vacation, so they go from the A line toThe airport, you know? And so-- And we know how busy, you know, how crazy and busy the, uh,

the airport is in Denver Metro. That the DIA, Denver International Airport. Anyways, I've only seen a police officer on the A line, but I've rarely s- even then, it's -- I've only seen it one time. I o- I see security a lot on the A line, but on the R line, I don't see security. Now, a-according to, uh, a board meeting I watched, there has to be at least, I think, one security guard on a, on a train in order for it to operate.

That's their policy. But that policy gets broken because I've ridden that R line, and there's no security on it. People, you know, people are acting up, you know,

being crazy on that train. One-one time a guy got on there, literally, he was quiet on the platform, and he got on the train. As soon as he got on the train, he started wigging out, started yelling and screaming. I'm talking loud. I mean, this was loud. And I was like, I hit that emergency button. I was like, "Hey, gotta kick this guy off the bus."

No security was on the platform. No security was on the light rail.

And so the-it was gonna have... The, the driver of the light rail was gonna have to go and confront this gentleman. Thankfully, another guy jumped up. He was a passenger, and he told him, "Hey, you gotta get off the train, man. They're gonna come get you." And he scared that dude off the train. He was o- obviously, the guy had mental issues. I think he, he appeared to be homeless, but, or houseless, you know.

So it's, it's crazy, man. It, it's crazy, uh,

how little security is on that R line and, you know.

It goes through, you know, some pretty rough area and, you know.

So i-it, yeah, pretty bad, pretty bad.

Anyways, I recorded... The police had gotten on. Two police officers, only two police officers got on the R line when I got on, checked my ticket, started checking people's tickets, and then two security guards jumped on. So I wanna talk about the conversation I had with them. And, uh, a-al- also, I wanna mention security guards, their policy is, RTD policy is they can't touch anybody for any reason unless they're being attacked, and they have to defend themselves, then they can put hands on somebody. So RTD security is not a,

is not, is not that effective, is not effective at all in, um, well, how should I word this? They're not that effective in keeping the

light rail safe. Now, I wanna congratulate an RTD security officer. He's in one of my videos, uh, cellphone videos, one of my first videos. He de-escalated

a argument between two gentlemen that was going to get violent. Uh, they were threatening each other with violence, and he de-escalated it,

uh, very well. And, uh, you know, not, you know, not all security officers are bad. Um,

you know, I, I don't wanna... I'm not here to, to, to talk bad about them. Um, but if, you know, if they do something good, congratulate them. If they do something bad, hold them accountable. So it's, you know,

everybody has to be accountable for their actions, whether they're good or bad. You know, I'm held to a high standard of accountability, so should others. If I'm breaking the law, I go to jail. If, if somebody el- if somebody's a, a law enforcement and they're breaking the law, they go to jail. So,

you know, is we're e- we're all equal. We're all Americans, you know,

so, or citizens, or people, the residents of this, of this place. So anyways,

two security guards jumped on. I was shocked. They're like, "You're recording?" And I was like, "Yeah." I'm like, "I'm shocked." I said, "I never see this. Never seen a police officer on this train." She goes, "I know." They even agreed. Yeah, it is rare, but they're on here watching. I said, "That's good." Um,

but yeah, they, they, um,

they... I ha- I had a conversation with them,

and we were talking. Um, I f- I didn't get their names, but, uh,

they're, they're very nice. We're, we're chopping it up, you know, talking.

And the,

the guy was like, "Oh, you know, um, I like your camera." He goes, "I wanna get one, so I can kind of vlog

with my, doing my job." And I said, "Yeah, you know, this is g- this is an action camera."

I had a, I didn't have my body cam on me, uh, and I just had my action cam. But, uh,

yeah, he's real cool. We're, we're talking about...

He's ta- they're talking about the crazy stuff they've seen, like people getting naked on the train. That's actually happened more quite often. A lot of people kinda, you know, with mental illness

and/or drugs abuse.

Um, you know, they... So what I found out was, this, this, this happened around, uh, it was like an hour before sunset. So I think it was around six o'clock, 6:00 PM, 5:30 PM yesterday on the 29th. The reason why there was such a large police presence was there was a man on a bus, and he was, it sounds

pretty insane, but he was playing a harmonica.

And, uh, he's playing it loud on the bus, and the driver told him, "Hey, stop playing that, uh, with the harmonica," I guess. You know, it's loud. And the guy was, got upset. He was, uh, under the influence of alcohol, and he had a hammer or some type of, um, weapon, um, similar, and he was threatening the, uh, to beat the bus driver to death with it, from what I recall the security guards saying. So this is all hearsay. I'm not... This isn't like set in stone facts. I'm gonna do a public records request on this

just to showYou know, severity of, of things that can happen on the public transportation, RTD.

Um, so

the,

they were like, that's why there was such a large police presence. I guess at that time they decided to jump on it, on the trains. Actually, one of the officers, I believe

I, um, recognized him

from, uh, body cam footage. And I believe I have one of his body cams from another incident, the pepper spray incident on March 5th, 2026.

So, but yeah, the, the security guards were cool. We're just talking and, uh,

really nice. Um,

you know, they, they confirmed that they were not allowed to touch anybody un- unless they were defending themselves.

Um,

you know, I had talked to them about previous incidences, um,

about, you know, and then I posted it on YouTube. And they were like, they, you know, they followed me on YouTube.

They, uh, you know, I said, "Check it out, you know,

I'm making videos about RTD. I'm just trying to educate people, trying to, um,

hopefully make a difference in changing policy and procedures and, and, and, and make this place more safe." You know, my, my goal is to,

to make...

Hopefully they, you know, expose RTD and then that will cause them to do their job,

you know, and make, make RTD safe without, you know,

you know, doing things that are unnecessary like, you know, police brutality, excessive force,

arresting people for petty things, police officers wasting time on calls. You know, just,

you know, they're, they're wasting money right now. They, they're paying off-duty police officers and they're ri- to do, to, to, uh, charge people with crimes and transport them to county jails.

Yet they give them vehicles with no cages in them,

and then RTD ends up doing their job while off-duty police officers are kicking back,

you know, getting paid, um, extra money,

you know, high, you know, more than their average,

more than their, their on-duty pay. So they're doing their job. So it's basically guys just standing around doing nothing, wasting time. You know, two guys can detain somebody and transport them instead of like a whole platoon, you know, exaggerating, like seven officers like on that one call.

So they, they even agreed with me on that, that those security officers are like, "Yeah, you know." I said, "I, I know what's going down. I know what's going on."

Um,

you know, they, they, uh, they're just telling me all these crazy stories.

Yeah. They just...

Their, um, their job is pretty hard, you know. I, I wouldn't do it, especially with the workman's compensation laws in this country.

You know, if they get seriously injured, that company's gonna deny their claim. They're, they're, they don't wanna pay out. So they don't even have body cameras.

So I told them, I said, "You guys need to get body cameras. You need to, um, protect yourselves."

Um, 'cause, you know, who knows, somebody could be drunk and they stumbled and fell down, and they try to say that they hit them. But, you know, they fell down because they were under the influence.

So yeah, crazy. Um,

but, uh,

yeah, you know,

they're out there doing their job, you know.

They're telling me, yeah, they can get, they can get all kinds of gear from some store out here. I wanted to check it out, but they said you have to be a, a police officer or RTD security officer,

'cause I wanted some, uh, ta- some tactical stuff for like...

'Cause they're, they said they could wear all the... You know what they told me? They said they could wear, uh, a vest, a bulletproof vest, but they have to wear it under their uniform. They can't wear it over their uniform, of course, to block it. You know, it has to fit under their, um, their shirts, which you probably have to get a size pretty big to put like a bulletproof vest in there.

I don't think they have to worry about getting shot. Well, they, yeah, there, there's been some incidences, but I'd be worried about getting stabbed or poked with a needle

if I was a security guard.

But, uh,

yeah, first time I ever seen police on the R line.

Crazy.

Yeah, that was crazy.

But anyways, oh,

I wanna talk about this video. This is what we're gonna talk about. Oh my gosh, this is insane.

The

RTD just put out a video

on March 27th, 2026.

It's only got 37 views.

And it's called Resilience and Reinvention, full panel discussion.

Now, I wanna know who paid for this. Now, it has the RTD watermark in the upper left-hand corner, I believe. Yeah, that's a,

that's a, that is a RTD watermark in the upper left-hand cornerOkay, now

I wanna first off by saying I have nothing...

I'm not trying to s- to, what is it called? I'm not trying to

belittle women. I'm not trying to belittle women. I'm not trying to,

to do any of that. I'm not trying to... I'm just saying what resources are being allocated

towards,

towards things that are necessary at this time and moment.

What things are...

I'm trying to show how much money is, is being diverted away from real issues like sanitary issues at RTD stations

and

public safety on

public transportation

versus

educating people

on

women's, uh,

um, women, uh, rights or women, um,

you know, empowering women

and, and the money being allocated towards

that.

Being-- Because RTD is public transportation.

So anyways, we're gonna, we're, I'm gonna talk about this video. This video was most likely paid for

by RTD

and posted online.

Of course, they

held this meeting and at least one of them is an RTD employee, which is the general manager and CEO. I forget her name. Uh, I don't know it off the top of my head,

but, uh, she's a female, of course. And, uh,

I'm watching this video and it's all about, you know, Women's History Month, this and that, blah, blah, blah. Now, RTD is for public transportation. That's a public transportation department. It's not PBS. It's not public access.

You know, I'm, I'm old school. We called it public access back in the day.

The public transportation department is not,

is not made to educate people on

women's rights, you know, other types of history,

um,

you know, other...

Why don't you stick to public transportation? Do what you're supposed to do. Stick to public, educating the people on public transportation, how to ride it, how to be safe. These are the resources you have. If something happens, call the police. If something's dirty, we're gonna clean it. What are we doing to make your experience a whole lot better?

Why don't you spend the money on showing all the financial documents, making them public and educating the public on, "Okay, here's our expenses. Here's our, here's our income. Here's this." Why don't you tell people, educate people on that? Because they don't want to focus on that. They don't wanna focus on the reality of why is this transportation department failing? Why are you asking for more money when we increase taxes to pay for public transportation? I've never lived in a state where you had a sales tax that specifically went towards public transportation.

I was all for it when I got to this state, but then I saw that they're not even doing their job. They're not upkeeping the sanitary, uh, sanitation of the stations or the public safety, and they're spending money on it. They're hiring all these police officers, yet it's still unsafe and they're not doing their job.

So basically, this video, I'm watching it and she's drinking her own bathwater.

She's wafting in her own

pride and position saying she's like, um, o- out of the whole country, she's one of seven that,

that, uh, are head of a public transportation department.

Okay, pat yourself on the back, but do it on your own time. You know what I'm saying? I don't have a problem with that, a women's empowerment or women's session. You're filming it,

you know. That's all good. You know, hey, more power to you, you know.

Um, that's good. W- well, there, there's... That's good that, that, that this is taking place and you're helping each other out. You know, women really do help each other out versus men. We're, we're very

We'll, we'll stab each other in the back.

Now, that's just my opinion. This is just an opinion piece. But anyways,

you know, I can't confirm this. I might do a public records request. I'll see how much they spent on this. But it seems RTD spent the money on filming this,

and they're getting paid while they're doing this. And I bet you that general manager... This is, uh... How long is this?

It's one hour and thirty-three minutes.

So you have the setup time.

You gotta get there early. You're getting paid for it, filming the session, and then setting, you know, breaking down. Now, they brought the buses in, in, in vinyls,

and I believe the trains,

you know, celebrating Women's, uh, H- History Month.

That's, that I don't have a problem with. It's kind of beautiful to see that artwork on the, the buses. But trust me, if you look into how much it costs to wrap a vehicleIt is a lot of money. It is a lot, a lot of money just to buy a little vinyl sign. If you, if you knew how much it costs, I'll probably get that. I'll probably get how much they're paying for that.

But if you knew how much it costs to wrap a car, just a car, it's an exorbitant amount of money. Now, for this custom wrap to be printed and put on the bus,

yeah, that's a lot of money. Now, maybe RTD has its own department, but still you're paying employees. That's time and that's money, okay? So they're wrapping all this stuff. They're paying it out of their pocket versus, you know, somebody who wants to advertise on their, their, their transportation, you know what I mean? On their light rail. You know, they're pay- they're charging them to advertise on their buses and everything.

And I don't wanna get too off subject, but I don't like the fact that there's alcohol, and this may not be a popular opinion. I don't like the fact that there, there's alcohol

being, uh, advertised on, on public transportation. I don't, I don't like that. You know, we have a high rate of alcoholism,

you know, in this country, and drug abuse, and I don't wanna see that

on the public transportation. It's depressing. And another thing that's depressing is these injury lawyers, you know.

Uh, you know, I, I don't like that either, you know, 'cause they really do prey on people. That's my opinion. You know, I'm not naming any names, but, you know, you got these ambulance chasers on the,

you know, on the public transportation, and I don't wanna see that. You know, I wanna see something positive. So it is good that there's something positive on the bus. I'm just saying right now,

all they do is complain ex- ever since its existence, all they do is complain about money. You know,

maybe we should think about how you're spending your time,

you know, because

she can do this on her own time. These, these women could do this on their own time, on their own dime at another organization,

one that's more fit for it. Like I said, PBS, Public Broadcasting, uh, System, I believe it stands for,

versus, uh, public transportation. Like I said, they could be breaking down financial documents and educating people on where the money's coming and where the money's going, but they ain't gonna do that. You know what I mean? Instead, general manager, CEO, she just wants to pat herself on the back. "Look at me. Look at me. I'm a woman. Look what I'm do- look what I-- See the position I'm in instead of seeing what I am doing and what changes I made," because the truth is, the reality is

RTD

is being heavily watched and scrutinized by the state of Colorado, and that's just the truth. They had a wh- a s- a whole day session at the, at the Capitol

talking about

wh- how, how they're not gonna be able to, uh, continue with this transportation

department, I think, in the future because of they don't have enough money.

So that's all they complain about. "We don't have enough money."

But yeah. But yet, you know...

You know, and another thing, this is a women's, it's a women-- They're talking about women's history. What is this, for March? I guess it's women's... Is it women's history in March?

Black history was in February, right? So February, that's the short- shortest month.

But, um, that's messed up. But, uh,

anyways, they, so it's wom- March is Women's History Month, I guess. Let me check this out on the in-

internet.

Okay, blah, blah, blah.

Uh,

March 8th,

2025. Yeah, I guess just the whole month in America.

In Canada, they got one. I think it's a day, Women's Day on March 8th.

Oh, my bad. That's, um, yeah, United States, Germany, Australia,

March 8th.

Canada has one on October 18th. October 18th.

But anyways, um,

I forgot what I was gonna say.

Um,

yeah. Yeah, I, I, I just, I just... This, this, this type of content just rubs me the wrong way 'cause they could be, they could, they could be

educating people on more pressing issues, on more serious issues that affect women, men, whatever gender you identify as.

The, it affects all people. Public safety affects all people. Public transportation affects all people, all human beings,

no matter what your color, race, creed,

political affiliation is.

This, you know...

Right now you need to make content about everybody, um, that uses this,

for everybody that uses this public transportation, and how you're gonna save money and how you're gonna make it more efficient, safe, and clean.

But instead, you wanna pat yourself on the back

and...

You know what I mean? But yeah.

But yeah, um, that's what I gotta say about that.

It, it, it was just a whole... I mean, she went on a rant in the beginning of that video just. You could watch the first five, 10 minutes of that video, and she's just patting herself on the back.Yeah.

How about this? I challenge you to go speak at a public meeting and see how much they care about your opinion or your input. And I'm telling you right now, they ain't gonna give...

They don't care about your opinion or what you think. You're gonna see how they react and how they behave when you go and you speak at one of their public meetings.

So yeah, they'll take the time to pat themselves on the back and make this,

uh, propaganda to hide

what, what's really going on

with

RTD.

So there's a lot of... It's a lot of bullshit.

It's a lot of fucking bullshit.

They, they're gonna take the time to spend all this money on this shit,

and they're not gonna fix the real issues for, for everybody, for all people.

You know what I mean? So

yeah, it's all bullshit, man.

Anyway, shout out to the security guards, man. You know,

you know, I, I, I mean,

be safe, man. Be safe.

Be safe, everybody, all the security guards, man.

You know, keep your body ca- get a body camera 'cause

RTD is on a budget. It ain't gonna pay...

Probably ain't gonna pay you workman's compensation

if you get hurt.

That insurance is gonna be going dead out of your claim. You better watch your ass. Now, I'm-- that's just my opinion. Um, I don't wanna get sued and say I know for sure.

But,

you know, this is mostly an opinion piece, but this was also some facts in here.

Anyways, go to my website, www.audittheauditor.com. Link is in the description below. Um, I know on YouTube, I'm, I'm @diyjournalist, like do it yourself journalist, but delta india yankee journalist.

That's how you spell it, DIY.

Um, and then everywhere else, right now I'm on TikTok.

I gotta post... I'm gonna post my, uh, link to TikTok on my profile. I'm gonna start getting on TikTok 'cause even the security guards were like, "Yo, you need to get on TikTok."

And I do need to get on TikTok because that's where the, that's where the kids are at. So I'm trying to drive traffic to my, my YouTube for long form content. I'm on Odysee. Check out... I like that platform better 'cause you could, you could see my videos, and then you could see PDFs that are uploaded to there. Plus, it's not YouTube, you know, so... I, I'm, I don't really like

YouTube that much.

I mean, it's a...

It's, it's, you know... It comes up in the search engines, that's why. But

anyways, I digress. So yeah, check me out. Ride safe, everybody.

You know, if you see something, say something, pull out a camera and record it,

and upload it online 'cause we gotta hold these people accountable, you know.

It's, uh, some bullshit. Anyways, be safe.