Honor systems work where there is a culture of honesty when unsupervised. New York City, I'm afraid, is... not that. Also, the system is so large and geograph

Honor systems work where there is a culture of honesty when unsupervised. New York City, I'm afraid, is... not that. Also, the system is so large and geographically spread out that you could never have enough officers to enforce / spot check people to make them trust it. And one of the most frustrating things for the law-abiding is when law-breakers are not caught or disciplined. Law-abiding people themselves might stop participating out of frustration. The system would quickly collapse.