If you’ve ever been on public transit, you know it’s not really just about the fare dodgers. It’s also about having someone, anyone, with authority regularly check up on things to discourage crazy shit from happening that will discourage average riders from using the system — people blaring music, dance crews putting on impromptu shows on your train car, junkies overdosing in the corner, some guy making the train platform his permanent home, people pissing, shitting and vomiting in the wrong locations, influencers shooting their latest TikTok.
I’m all for free public transit, but I’d still want to see a staff presence on board telling people that don’t know how to behave in public to cut it the fuck out.
How the fuck are more cops playing Pokemon GO at the entrance to the subway gonna stop any of that? The trains are entirely unsecured. Past the entrance you’re on fucking Pandora from Borderlands.
In fact, cops give such few fucks that one guy was assaulted in front of a cop and took it to the Supreme Court, who ruled that police have no duty to protect you. RadioLab covered it.
As far as appropriation of funds, let me remind you that almost no stations have elevators and only like two stations out of hundreds have guard rails. There are significant other things the MTA could do to actually make the subways safe.
If you’ve ever been on public transit, you know it’s not really just about the fare dodgers. It’s also about having someone, anyone, with authority regularly check up on things to discourage crazy shit from happening that will discourage average riders from using the system — people blaring music, dance crews putting on impromptu shows on your train car, junkies overdosing in the corner, some guy making the train platform his permanent home, people pissing, shitting and vomiting in the wrong locations, influencers shooting their latest TikTok.
I’m all for free public transit, but I’d still want to see a staff presence on board telling people that don’t know how to behave in public to cut it the fuck out.
How the fuck are more cops playing Pokemon GO at the entrance to the subway gonna stop any of that? The trains are entirely unsecured. Past the entrance you’re on fucking Pandora from Borderlands.
In fact, cops give such few fucks that one guy was assaulted in front of a cop and took it to the Supreme Court, who ruled that police have no duty to protect you. RadioLab covered it.
As far as appropriation of funds, let me remind you that almost no stations have elevators and only like two stations out of hundreds have guard rails. There are significant other things the MTA could do to actually make the subways safe.
False Dichotomy. Well done.
Police have been caught more than once playing PoGo while on duty
https://gothamist.com/news/on-duty-nypd-cops-caught-on-camera-playing-pokemon-go https://ktla.com/news/local-news/lapd-releases-video-of-officers-ignored-robbery-calls-to-play-pokemon-go/
Oh fuckoff copper
Sounds like they should have spent 150M building solutions to these problems instead of dispersing these problems to other places…?
I don’t know what the staff could do about it these days.
Hey could you please turn down your music?
Music guy: “Fuck you” and turns it up.
And that’s that.
Any escalation beyond that becomes a civil or criminal issue.
This.
Also, the Broken Window theory.