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The BART police are afraid of being falsely accused even when they are in the right, because of the legacy of the Oscar Grant case, so they are overly timid about confronting criminals.

The police were wrong in the Oscar Grant case, but the consequences for public safety have been very negative as a result of the public reaction.

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This implies it's rational to fear for your freedom as a law-abiding person on the basis that a true criminal was convicted. That makes no sense. By that logic we should be against letting police arrest these robbers anyway, because if they did, all of the non-criminal commuters would refuse to enter BART for fear of being charged with robbery.

No, it does not imply that.

This statement

> The BART police are afraid of being falsely accused even when they are in the right, because of the legacy of the Oscar Grant case

is not accurately summarized by this statement?

> Law-abiding people are afraid of being falsely accused, because of the fact that a true criminal was convicted

What part is incorrect?

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