Liberals shocked! San Francisco fixed its subway by stopping crime
Liberals shocked! San Francisco fixed its subway by stopping crime
Today, we have an exciting new report from Obvious Land: San Francisco’s public transportation system has raised revenue, dramatically improved customer safety, and is cleaner and more orderly than ever, and they accomplished it all with one neat trick. They actually cracked down on crime. And it worked.
This news won’t surprise most normal people, but liberals might be in for a shock. It turns out that when you install new gates that it make impossible for fare-evaders — that’s the euphemism we use to describe criminals who refuse to pay to use the subway — to jump the gate, you magically improve everything about the subway. Seriously.
They’re even taking notice within the mainstream media, which endlessly excuses law-breaking and says we need to tackle the root causes like poverty and homelessness (which is really like saying we should do nothing and let like the criminals run wild). But look at this headline from The Atlantic, which admits:
“In August, BART completed the installation of new fare gates at station entrances and........
