Homeless New Yorkers Face Court in Subway Sleeping Crackdown Over 1-Seat and Floor Violations
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Updated · NPR · May 11
Homeless New Yorkers Face Court in Subway Sleeping Crackdown Over 1-Seat and Floor Violations
1 articles · Updated · NPR · May 11
A growing number of homeless New Yorkers are being sent to court after recent police enforcement in the subway system.
The cases stem from officers citing people for taking up more than one seat on public transit or lying on station floors.
The crackdown is pulling homelessness more directly into the criminal-court system through transit-rule violations rather than shelter or outreach responses.
Does cracking down on minor subway infractions prevent serious crime or just punish poverty?
With NYC policing the homeless and Chicago using outreach, which city is truly solving its transit crisis?