The carceral state spends 150M to try to recover 150K in fares.
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The carceral state spends 150M to try to recover 150K in fares. And end up shooting people (including themselves).
What a world.
Adam (@[email protected])
"This is what happens when you flood a major transit system with a government-sanctioned, taxpayer-funded armed gang coated with official impunity and prone to violent escalation ... “The NYPD spent $150 Million *extra* last year to catch people who weren’t able to afford to pay the subway fare. They owed just $104,000 ... $150 million could buy free fares (at going rate) for 95,000 poor New Yorkers per year” https://theintercept.com/2024/09/16/brooklyn-subway-fare-shooting-police-violence #Brooklyn #NYC #subway #NYPD #police #ACAB #EricAdams
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Transit funding idea: take money from the cops and put it in transit systems.
then don’t let cops onto trains and buses for fare enforcement or other reasons
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte in Britain we have separate revenue protection inspectors for railway/bus/metro etc - the only time the cops are with them is in some city areas where the inspectors might get aggressive pushback from those they challenge, even so there are way more civilian inspectors than cops (and none of these are armed)
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK last edited by
@vfrmedia yeah I am more used to that system. Also traffic police etc.
It’s utterly nuts to me that the same cops are supposed to do all of this here (very poorly at that). Not to mention their past history in this country as slave catchers rather than law enforcement (American policing started that way)