This is how crime rates explode, and the Demonrats are 100% responsible for leading the crusade for criminals at the expense of law abiding citizens.
I remember when BART started in the early 70’s. Shortly thereafter, the affluent suburbs of the east bay started experiencing home robberies because criminal blacks from mainly Oakland now had easy access to new hunting grounds, and it has never been the same since.
Perhaps as a group “people of color” ride without paying the fare. Maybe thats the reason more of them get in trouble.
Yep decriminalize the fare hoppers and then you will not have any revenue from riders. Just pull the cops now from the trains as well as they will be targets and will not be able to protect much.
Bart runs at a substantial deficit. Bart needs fares to make up for its deficits.
The deficits effectively result in less funding for other (more efficient and more effective) transit systems such as Caltrain and buses.
So the bill hurts minorities by hurting overall sf bay mass transit which is used by minorities.
Morality, honesty, personal
pride, integrity, patriotism,
respect, and love of God.
All disappearing. No country
can survive with just one
of these parameters missing.
What color?
Make the transport free.
Tax local “Big Tech” to make it so.
“Director John McPartland said the fare evasion issue is a matter of public safety.”
The leftys running Commiefornia don’t give a damn about public safety. All they care about is keeping certain groups out of jail, because laws are racist.
“Bryan, a Democrat from Los Angeles, said that he authored the bill because he believes the enforcement of fare evasion rules is disproportionately used against people of color.”
Translation: most fare beaters are black.
I guess if most people arrested for murder are black, then the solution is we need to decriminalize murder.
One thing is for certain-it is the antithesis of “Broken Glass Policing”.
We know “Broken Glass Policing” works. Rudi Giuliani showed how well it does.
And we know how well “decriminalization” of crime “works”. San Francisco, Chicago, and a host of other blue cities have shown exactly how well it “works”.
What does it mean to “decriminalize fare evasion”?
It means that they know that most people will pay the fare, and that a certain segment will not. This is a gift to them. It’s an invitation to waltz in without paying. And that’s what they will do.
I wonder if they see the contradiction in “decriminalize fare evasion”? “Evasion” means “breaking the law.” Imagine if they were decriminalizing tax evasion?
This is the same as decriminalizing shoplifting. Another contradiction in terms. Another free gift to the people who see nothing wrong in stealing whatever they want from a store.
It all makes sense in the context of turning this country into a communist paradise.
Just more reparations.
The U.S. has gone from “the land of the free”, to the “land of the freeloaders”.
That should be what happens after the FIRST time evading the fare.
Public transit systems could eliminate the vast majority of fare evasion via implementation of basic, readily available COTS and effective penalties, but there is only one problem:
They’d have to choose profit over liberalism.
This story is about the converse.
I used BART for the very first time when taking an Alaskan cruise out of San Francisco. Parked at the Walnut Creek Station where there was covered parking for $6 a day (Saturday and Sunday were free). Got on the train easily enough with our luggage and lots of room around where we sat for keeping our luggage. Got off in downtown SF and walked to the ship. If we were flying out of SFO we would have just stayed on the train. The train and stations were clean and we felt safe at all times. I don’t know why anyone would not take BART to SFO. No traffic, tolls etc. to deal with. Obviously, BART is trying to change its image and from what I saw they did a good job. So now a racist California politician is saying that black people are too dumb to pay the fare and shouldn’t face criminal charges.
“the enforcement of fare evasion rules is disproportionately used against people of color.”
It could not possibly be because people of color disproportionately evade fares.
It could not be!
It's not like you're a racist or something.