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And there you have it. It doesn't fit the narrative of the OPOC (Oppressed People of Color) that certain groups are evading the fare in numbers exceeding their proportion of the population, so therefore enforcement must be dropped in order to avoid embarrassment. Because "inequality" (brought about by the OPOC themselves) is far more of a pressing concern than enforcing the law!
Essentially creating two different societies they expect to live in harmony?
The liberal Left running the city and state of New York is going off the deep end. So to make up for the needed funds for the subway sysyem, they will introduce an automobile congestion charge and raise property taxes on buildings near the subways:
Chief Assistant District Attorney Karen Friedman said this policy shift “marks the next step in our ongoing work to reduce inequality and unnecessary incarceration by ending the prosecution of low-level, non-violent offenses and offenders that do not post a risk to public safety or belong in our criminal courts.”
So, petty theft,vandalism,tagging,any drug use or dealing,credit card fraud etc shouldn't be prosecuted under this new theory given they are "low level" and there's no risk to "public safety" as the only thing they hurt is some big evil corporation or the person committing the offense.
Going backwards to the seventies Death Wish days. Maybe gangs will take over the subways again too.
I would rather have graffiti than feces on the seats.
Why don't people ever learn from history? It was just this sort of decline in quality of life in the 1960s and 1970s and into the 1980s that ultimately led the people to say that they'd had enough, and so they elected grown-up leaders like Giuliani and Bloomberg who stopped tolerating the "minor" crimes and gave their city back to the decent people. But then the people forgot all about that (indeed, many of today's New Yorkers have no memories of those dark days) and decided that it would be safe to vote their idealism.
Since then, bit by bit, the hard-won gains of the past are slowly but surely being eroded. And now, with the scofflaws being emboldened by Mayor Unicorn and Rainbows, it'll only get worse.
The liberal mayor de Blasio trying to undo all the hard work the previous mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg did to clean up the city. The latest now is to not even catch or ticket subway turnstile jumpers.
They’re going to turn the subway into a filthy, stench-filled homeless and vagrant camp, turning off regular riders.
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