DC: WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bill to decriminalize fare evasion on the D.C. metro system that passed in the City Council was vetoed by Mayor Muriel Bowser on Wednesday. (RELATED: D.C. Moves To Decriminalize Metro Fare Evasion)
“We should not encourage lawlessness on Metro, which could exacerbate public safety concerns on our Metro and in our city,” Bowser wrote in a letter to the Council’s Chairman Phil Mendelson explaining her decision to veto, something she’s only done twice since assuming office in 2015.
While proponents of the measure argued that laws regarding fare evasion disproportionately affected people of color, others worried that decriminalization would leave an already-struggling transit system with revenue shortfalls.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) that manages the Metro system was opposed to decriminalizing fare evasion, a measure which they said would cost them millions and leave Metro Transit Police unable to mitigate other types of crime on the subway system, but it passed through Council easily. more here
Think the City Council will call her racist?
COMMON sense… IN D.C.?! :faint:
“….but it passed through Council easily.”
Can I have a guess as to the percentage of colored people on the council?
Maybe the reason the laws about fare evasion disproportionately affect people of color is because people of color disproportionately evade fares.
If not paying would not be a crime, why would anyone pay at all?
Dum bass leftists……
How refreshing; a lib, black mayor
with some common sense.
laws regarding fare evasion disproportionately affected people of color
As do most laws in general.
I think she might have misunderstood the bill. This is the D.C. mayor, right?
Space to Destroy? Yes
Space to rip off $2 from city gov? Hell no.
WOW! I am truly shocked!
She’s a joke. She doesn’t mind if the criminals lie cheat and steal. Just don’t do it with the subways. It’s a cash cow.
…the whole “disparate impact” argument is retarded. If you have a law in a 90% Black city, it’s preeeeety likely it will affect more Blacks than Whites. Use THAT standard for everything, and you may as well just quit pussyfooting around and say “laws are only for White people”, and watch the nation’s Capital turn into Zimbabwe West, but with even MORE violence…
The reason “that laws regarding fare evasion disproportionately affected people of color” is because the law beakers are disproportionately people of color.
…that too, @Cynic, but my argument is against theory, and yours is about practice. Either way, it’s a stupid idea and only there to keep violent Democrats around for more voting and thug use in future…
Carlos, I think you just offended all left-handed bass players! Good thing I play right-handed!
Standing by for input from Corkscrew Cortex…
(This issue clearly isn’t settled until then.)
Over ride the veto over rides…only in Democrap DC
Now they can continue to selectively enforce the law. If you are white, or wear a suit, you better pay.
Is she the only sane person in D.C.?
The majority of LIPs in DC are “colored” so how could the law NOT affect them?
But disproportionately? Not at all. Even proportional affect would still piss em off – they’d lose their race card.
And I’m fairly certain that the stupid, “liberal,” white maggots who live in DC would be more than happy to pay the “colored” peoples’ fines.
izlamo delenda est …