In England, private prosecutions are used regularly by the railway. The threat of prosecution lets them do a shakedown to extract sums from people It was less

In England, private prosecutions are used regularly by the railway. The threat of prosecution lets them do a shakedown to extract sums from people It was less bizarre when they were all private companies, but now many are owned by the government! Some of them have successfully prosecuted people over a £0 difference in fare