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My wife would have used public transit more if the downtown train stations weren’t crawling with aggressive drugged out people harassing people at all hours; ad
by barbariangrunge 3y ago
My wife would have used public transit more if the downtown train stations weren’t crawling with aggressive drugged out people harassing people at all hours; add that she used to get off work late at night, and it wasn’t safe for her
So, there’s a starting point. Let’s stop letting thugs who reek of Lysol on the train wander up to a stranger to steal their hat off their head without consequence (actual incident I saw last time I was in the train)
- wizofaus 3y agoWhy should having enough money to pay for a 1st class ticket be the only way to avoid being harrassed by "aggressive drugged-out people"?? Surely at a minimum PT should guarantee that for all passengers.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoI'm hardly liberal myself, but what sort of policy is it that you imagine could change this at this late date? Cops could be directed to arresting such people aggressively, as their primary duty. Prosecution could be greased such that they aren't getting back out pre-trial... at least temporarily. Laws might even be modified such that they are convicted. But at the end of the day, you need to warehouse them somewhere if you're going to keep them off the train and from stealing hats off people's heads. And in the places where this is the biggest problem (California), they're constantly running into prison capacity issues that see people released early. All this remains true even if your jackbooted enough to be willing to go through with this crap. There are some other fundamental issues that would need to be solved first, and I'm not even certain those have been identified.