Metro appointed a new police chief Thursday, two weeks after the transit agency reported a rising crime rate in the Metro system.

Michael Taborn, a 55-year-old former Metro Transit Police captain, has spent the past five years as director of the Office of Transit Safety and Security with the Federal Transit Administration.

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