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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

This whole post is dumb as hell. If $100,000 is all the money they collected, in a year, in NYC, that tells me the cops are ignoring the issue. If the city was collecting millions and millions, then it would be an ACAB story.

I'm reading the penalty is typically $100, let's roll with that. Reading they system just passed 1-billion riders for the first time in 2022. (Wow.)

$104,000/$100=1,040 people busted (assuming once charge each). 1040/1B= 0.00000104 of the total riders incurred a ticket.

Not seeing the percent of those riders that were jumpers, but it's going to be a few orders of magnitude larger than 0.00000104. LOL, the street cops are utterly ignoring this thing.

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (14 children)
  • The assumption that people don't pay the fare because they can't pay the fare is a flimsy one.

  • Catching a relatively small number of people who didn't pay the fare keeps many more people honest. The main purpose of the police is deterrence.

  • Police on the subway also deter other sorts of crime with their presence.

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[–] partner0709@lemmy.world -3 points 8 months ago

U dont get it do you? What makes you think other people have to pay and you dont?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So we know someone's okay with laws being broken, but we're just not sure how much crime this person's cool with. If you want more crime than I do, and you're thus wanting reduced safety for everyone, are you then really different from 'muh raghts' anti-vax weenies who want to carry Whooping Mumps at will and kill my grandma?

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