Gov. Cuomo has been using state police to patrol deep into the boroughs (claiming theyre just patrolling MTA bridges and tunnels sure, right), which feels menacing and police state-y.
Now it turns out that the governor has hired another 500 state cops at a cost of $663 million over 10 years to knock down the straw man of fare evasion in the subway (a barely worth mentioning minor crime that is disproportionately enforced against people of color). Oh, and if that isnt bad enough, Gothamist reported on Monday that these friendly neighborhood officers wont have body cameras like the NYPD.
So thats roughly $125,000 per cop per year to criminalize poverty and do so in a way thats unaccountable. Your tax dollars at work. (Counterpoint? The MTA says aggressive enforcement is working, as the Post reported, though the Wall Street Journal reported just the opposite.)
Now, the rest of the days news:
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Tuesday's Headlines: What Could Possibly Go Wrong Edition - Streetsblog New York
