NYPD officials say they will deploy 800 more officers into the subway to stop fare evasion buff.ly/3VQxQv9
@Gothamist With all the expenses of these cops to stop fare evasion, you could just make fares free and have a better society.
@Gothamist As a New Yorker I have noticed it becoming so prevalent. Definitely raises questions like 1) Why are more and more people doing ? 2) Is it really costing the city? 3) Are there other ways of addressing it other than using law enforcement?
@Gothamist Law & Order: Fare Evasion. Sounds super important and exciting. Can't they do something useful with the money like reopen the libraries on Sundays?
@Gothamist They're volunteering and working that shift for free, right? If citizens can't afford to pay a subway fare, there is no way they can afford to pay an overpriced police force.
@Gothamist Carceral consequences to crimes of poverty are not solutions.
@Gothamist Proof the NYPD doesn’t have enough real criminals to police. The train is already going in that direction. Let those who don’t have it ride for free.
@Gothamist NYC decides to spend an additional million dollars to earn the state $20k Makes sense.
@Gothamist This the "broken windows" theory carried to the point of collective insanity. Meanwhile, the biggest category of theft in our society is wage theft. No police for that.
@Gothamist Paying those cops will cost taxpayers more money than the fare evasion does