Guerrilla NYC subway poster

This is why it's important to remember that in any revolution, resistance, or targeted action, it's the police that are the first enemy. They'll be the ones that respond first, and will likely toe the line the most reliably.

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2nd Amendment is usually a punchline, but it may become necessary

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- Tbh, it always has been.
  
  The only problem is that we've been set up so that the people that are most likely to oppose the worst case scenario are the ones least likely to be both armed and willing to fight.
  
  Just wait, though. If things slide the way they could, it won't be long before the party policy shifts against armed citizens.
  
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- Why do you think your police has been militarized so hard over the past few decades ?
  
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NY transit starts getting complaints about an ad they have no idea about.

"No, m'mam, we don't have a death penalty policy.....no......no m'man, I don't know what poster you saw....."

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"but yes m'aam we did shoot and kill 4 human beings for cheating us out of the 2.90 fare"

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- Fortunately none of them died as far as I can find. Surgeons had to crack open the skull of the bystander they shot in the back of the head to relieve his brain swelling though. I hope he recovers because he's gonna be set for life.
  
  They spent 150 million on overtime for cops to stop fare evasion. How much were they losing in fares? I'm gonna go ahead and guess it wasn't even a teeny fraction of that.
  
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- Well wait.....can the NY transit be blamed for that, if it was NYPD?
  
  That would be like if some guy stole a loaf of bread from a grocery store, so they call the cops, and the cop shoots the theif.
  
  Do you blame the grocery store?
  
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- The fun part is of the 4 people shot, only the one had skipped the fare. Two were bystanders, one was another cop.
  
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- The statement they did put out about the poster was basically
  "The shooting was not over skipping fare. But everytime someone skips fair we loss money and people are in danger"
  
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While I feel a little bad about the folks no doubt receiving those calls, this is so deliciously amusing to contemplate.

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Reminds me of Brandalism

Here's an example!

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You should post that to the Wikipedia community.

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so is this ad meant to push people to pay the fare or to start a revolution?

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It's saying the quite part out loud about the normalized police state we live in.

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I'd say a bit of both. The numbers they showed for it if I remember was that they spent $150m to catch like $100,000 of fares that were skipped. Then throw in 4 people dead and you didn't do much to help. You just made it more miserable for people travelling.

With fares making up 23% of your income, and payroll taking up over 30% of expenses... Odds are they could cut the number of guards patrolling tolls, ticket sales people, customer service reps, maintenance workers for all the machines/guard terminals etc by a shit ton and make the transportation free, and offset the costs elsewhere. It would also likely boost the economy of the area, do to people not needing to scrape together a couple dollars to take the train and spending it at businesses they otherwise may normally avoid do to costs or not having that extra few dollars.

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- In Ontario, asshole political leader Doug Ford is trying to stop free public transit by paying for transit cops out of the provincial budget. That way no one can make the payment you just made. Can we have the same amount of money to spend on improving public transit? No. The only thing fearless leader Doug Ford fears more than free public transit is good public transit.
  
  What a bag of dicks. Watch other conservative states and provinces follow his lead!
  
  https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/doug-ford-announces-money-for-cops-asylum-seekers-in-ottawa-no-new-transit-funds-1.7098980
  
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- Well, I’ll give you an update here as I have boots on the ground:
  
  They cut back on the amount of cops on the platforms now—but now every single exit door has a private guard (one of those rent a cop companies). So now they’re bringing privatized security into the mix. But there are still cops on the platforms! Just not as many at the door because they’ve hired some security guards to have the same effect an MTA person has, which means they can’t really do shit if you don’t let them stop you.
  
  So a slightly different way to waste money.
  
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When shouting DefundThePolice/PoliceReform is seen as offensive, this is how you convince the people.

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At this point it would be better usage of money to make it a surveillance state instead of a police state, cameras won’t shoot you

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It's also a surveillance state at this point.

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That's what I think when I see deadly high speed chases occuring, like unless the person is imminently trying to harm others could they maybe just wait for him to drive home and then make an arrest?

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- So keeping track of the suspect movement while also planning for actions based on gathered information? I doubt cops with 6 months training have the patience for something like that
  
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...yet

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Please transcribe images of text for the blind

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SKIP THE FARE? EXPECT THE DEATH PENALTY

On September 15th, the NYPD shot four people over the $2.90 fare

OMNY

So the NYPD can double tap and go

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- It says OMNY. It's a payment system for the subway
  
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Adding descriptive text to all images is the cool thing to do.

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No lie the dude in the reflection looks like my NYPD cousin.

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The fare enforcement was of course a huge overreach and waste of resources, spending something absurd like 1000x what it recovered. The cops didn't shoot people over a fare, they shot because someone pulled a knife on them, after trying to use a Taser which failed. Not really sure what else people expect will result if someone pulls a knife on someone with a gun, cop or not.

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@Apathy@lemmy.world hi

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Hello, don’t forget to drink water

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who put this poster up? the subway or a protest group?

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It wasn't put up by the MTA. I have no idea why you're getting downvoted, and the person who responded to you with misinformation is getting upvoted.

https://www.newsweek.com/nyc-subway-fare-poster-warning-death-penalty-1989001

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- thanks for posting the source. down-votes don't bother me. down-votes are supposed to be used if the comment has no addition or content to the topic being discussed, not because you don't like what someone is saying.
  
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The subway. The OMNY logo is on the bottom

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It won't load for me on Voyager. Comment to check with sync and desktop.

Edit: doesn't load on sync either.

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Does for me on sync

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- It finally loaded in Voyager when I read your comment.
  
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Damn that’s crazy. No mention of the guy rushing police with a knife when confronted and told to pay, screaming “shoot me shoot me shoot me”.

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alleged knife that magically disappeared

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- Seems you didn’t follow this story after the initial outrage.
  
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- It didn't magically disappear, some rando picked it up and walked away with it while the cops were dealing with the guy.
  
  There are videos of the whole thing online, you should watch them. Fuck the police but let's be honest about that particular situation.
  
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He didn't rush at the police. He simply had a knife. And that doesn't justify shooting into a crowd, and with piss poor aim.

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- I saw the video. Are you lying or just haven’t seen it?
  
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I always laugh at the people who pay for fares for public transportation. It's an honor system. You just get on and don't pay. No one ever says anything. And those police officers who are supposed to check never say anything.

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If it's a honor system that you don't obey, are we to conclude you are without honor? ^^

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- Tis not due yet; I would be loath to pay him before his day. What need I be so forward with him that calls not on me? Well, ’tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o’ Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. ‘Tis insensible, then. Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I’ll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism.
  
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I pay for public tranposrtation because I like my bus drivers. should I have to? no, it should be 100% publicly funded. but it's not, so I do.

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And those police officers who are supposed to check never say anything.

unless you look not white and/or housed enough to them

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- I check both of those boxes and still don't get hassled.
  
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You're dumb.

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I believe that public transportation should be free, especially for low income individuals. I don't fit that definition anymore, so I am happy to pay to help keep it funded.

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In Dallas the light rail normally doesn't check but they're doing it more frequently now mainly to get homeless people off the trains, and they will make you get off if you don't have a ticket. The busses always check though.

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- In my area, the public transportation hall monitors never checks and they stopped bothering to check mainly to get people to ride public transport.
  
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Depends where you are. In Phoenix I've seen people get cited and escorted off the train. They're real cops, if you refuse to identify, they can arrest.

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I know what the person is trying to say.

But It's a bad look for them, as it comes across as them trying to suggest that stealing is ok.

Not everyone skipping fares can't afford it

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Skipping a fare should not be punishable by death, I don't care how wealthy the skipper is.

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- But what if billionare skips?
  
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- That's not what happened here most likely. No references, no context
  
  Chances are someone got aggressive or violent whilst being arrested due to ticket theft
  
  There's a reason there is no real info here
  
  Nobody is going to go and shoot someone because they see them jump over a barrier. Something else happened
  
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You're right - the death penalty is absolutely deserved over $2.90 if they could afford it.

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- False equivalency
  
  Neither are ok. And I'm not saying they are
  
  In fact, Trumpians do this.
  
  Trump will do 1000 shitty things. And he'll get his followers to focus on 1 thing
  
  We don't even know the full context here.
  
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Ok but now youre saying skipping the fare should be punished by death?

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- At a minimum.
  
  Also bring poor, coloured, the wrong gender or any other reason.
  
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They should just go back to cutting hands off for theft /s

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- Lol
  
  That's not what I said. False equivalency.
  
  And there is no context here or anything. I doubt anyone got shot because of not paying for their ticket
  
  They probably got aggressive or violent, and it just happened to be whilst they were being arrested.
  
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