To make public transport more appealing, get rid of the Democrats who control the areas where it is most economically viable. I'm all for reducing congestion/parking problems in a city by sticking a big car park on the edge of town and running a shuttle from there to the central business district, but if you want people to share transport with strangers it would help if those strangers weren't the dregs of humanity.
Yea, around here we have tons of public transportation. The problem isn't the transportation. It's the people on it.
Of course that's never going to get addressed because the troublemakers are usually the same kind of people and leftists who run cities would never admit their protected classes are a problem.
Best they can do is security theater by installing cameras everywhere. Which are worthless because they don't prevent crime and since our justice system isn't interested in creating politically incorrect statistics they don't help solve them either. And they do nothing about general anti-social behavior.
Also, like any public service access to it is solely at the discretion of the government. Get the jab or lose all mobility!
Nah, they don't even want to prosecute most crime because it creates inconvenient statistics.
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For example in Germany the percentage of foreign rape suspects is now at 42%, usually Turks, Afghans and Syrians. What does the government do? They don't investigate cases, import more of the same people and hand out German passports like candy. Bam, suddenly the rapist is "German". Problem solved.
Wrong kind of crime. That kind of crime doesn't create an income source. It just creates costs. (Jailed person, legal fees, and as you said bas optics).
The crime they do want to catch is the lazy easy stuff. Speeding, bad driving, indecent exposure, antisocial behaviour, anything that can be caught on camera. Doesn't need large legal fees (open and shut cases), causes large fines. Doesn't need investigation.
To make public transport more appealing, get rid of the Democrats who control the areas where it is most economically viable. I'm all for reducing congestion/parking problems in a city by sticking a big car park on the edge of town and running a shuttle from there to the central business district, but if you want people to share transport with strangers it would help if those strangers weren't the dregs of humanity.
Yea, around here we have tons of public transportation. The problem isn't the transportation. It's the people on it.
Of course that's never going to get addressed because the troublemakers are usually the same kind of people and leftists who run cities would never admit their protected classes are a problem.
Best they can do is security theater by installing cameras everywhere. Which are worthless because they don't prevent crime and since our justice system isn't interested in creating politically incorrect statistics they don't help solve them either. And they do nothing about general anti-social behavior.
Also, like any public service access to it is solely at the discretion of the government. Get the jab or lose all mobility!
They don't want to prevent crime because it's an income source. Crime committed can be fined and charged, preventing the crime incurs only costs.
Nah, they don't even want to prosecute most crime because it creates inconvenient statistics.
Edit: For example in Germany the percentage of foreign rape suspects is now at 42%, usually Turks, Afghans and Syrians. What does the government do? They don't investigate cases, import more of the same people and hand out German passports like candy. Bam, suddenly the rapist is "German". Problem solved.
Wrong kind of crime. That kind of crime doesn't create an income source. It just creates costs. (Jailed person, legal fees, and as you said bas optics).
The crime they do want to catch is the lazy easy stuff. Speeding, bad driving, indecent exposure, antisocial behaviour, anything that can be caught on camera. Doesn't need large legal fees (open and shut cases), causes large fines. Doesn't need investigation.
What, you've never enjoyed a ride on Atlanta's MARTA and enjoyed the fine smell of stale negro piss?
And having security in the trains and stops to making sure that you aren’t going to get stabbed and robbed by your fellow commuters