800 more NYPD in subway

= more racism

Hiii, I’m learning how to use kettlebells and love myself. Today I’m sharing my feelings about 800 police being deployed to the subway to “battle” fare evasion. Onto the news…

News that made me scream into the abyss…again

The so-called New York City police commissioner or as I like to call him, Martin Luther King’s nightmare, announced that the NYPD would be deploying 800 police to “battle” fare evasion on the subway. Obviously the best way to “battle’ fare evasion would be to make public transit free but that would mean we live in a world where things make sense, which we don’t. Why solve a problem with a solution that is good for everyone when you can come up with a non solution that is bad for Black and brown people! 

Over 90% of subway arrests are Black and Hispanic people while Black and Hispanic people are less than 50% of the city’s population. To which Eric Adams responded, that’s exactly why we should do it! Eric Adams read the book Animal Farm and he has been using it as his manual for leadership. He thinks he can do racist things without us calling him out for it because he is Black. Well, I’m here to tell you that I see right through your KKK robe Eric Adams.  

The reason why most subway arrests happen to Black and brown people is because policing is racist. Wow, who would have thought that a system created to enslave Black people would be racist? Me, says Eric Adams as he cheers on the cops in the subway. 

The racism in policing in this case looks like most of the police presence being in predominantly Black and brown subway stations. I can anecdotally attest to this by saying that the subway station where I definitely do not hop the turnstile never has cops because it’s in a neighborhood with many running shops and coffee shops aka it’s a white neighborhood. 

Additionally, the  police are more likely to arrest people for subway evasion in predominantly Black and brown subway stations than they are in predominantly white and Asian subway stations. It’s almost as if the police wake every morning with the goal of being racist just like I wake up in the morning with the goal of not screaming into the abyss. I fail every day but the police succeed every day. 

In addition to being racist, the fare evasion enforcement punishes poor people for being poor. To which Eric Adams laughs with joy! Eric Adams became mayor to maintain a socioeconomic racial hierarchy and he is doing so well at it he might be promoted to governor of so-called New York state. 

Last but not least, the fare evasion enforcement doesn’t actually save the city money. In 2022,  it cost over 150 million dollars in NYPD overtime pay to catch fare evaders costing a little over 100 thousand dollars! Give me a second while I scream into the abyss.

So yes, the purpose of the police on the subway is not to battle fare evasion or keep us safe. It’s to maintain the great American values of racism and hatred of poor people.

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