The DC Council is responsible for this one!

On Thursday night, two people were shot in the Fort Totten Metro Station in Northeast Washington, DC. A fight broke out and a gun was brandished and according to WRC television a struggle ensued, the gun was dropped. Someone picked it up and shot a man while the armed security assigned to that station returned fire striking the shooter! The station was closed for a number of hours inconveniencing a number of passengers that use that station. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) which operates the transit system has had to hire armed security guards as crime in the system is off the chain and the Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD) is facing a shortage of officers as well as every other law enforcement agency in America.

I’m willing to bet everything I own everyone involved in that melee did not pay the fare to enter the station. Why? Because the Washington DC Council voted in 2018 to make fare evasion a civil offense (like a parking ticket) as opposed a criminal offense (Misdemeanor). The DC Council voted to make fare evasion a civil offense because:

Much of the debate centered on questions of race and class, pitting key city officials and Metro leaders against civil rights activists and advocates for police reform, who argued too many D.C. residents are saddled with criminal records — and thus deprived of opportunities for jobs, housing and loans — for neglecting to pay a $2 fare.

This is why we are falling apart. Leftists want to give people who don’t pay the fare a free ride, so they don’t jeopardize future giveaways!  

The result is that the Transit Authority loses over $25 million per year from turnstile jumpers. These pieces of shit then come in the system and raise hell by panhandling, smoking weed, fighting, discharging firearms, waving their dicks at our mothers, wives, sisters and daughters and making the train system look like something from The Warriors!

I have personally seen what happens when you enforce the fare; dirtbags gets stopped and they get popped for weapons, drugs or active warrants! As for quality life offenses, one young man with an open container was stopped and was wanted for at least 12 felonies!

Today, I don’t ride the system unless I absolutely have to! My kids don’t ride it either. And the DC Council certainly doesn’t ride the trains because then they would want cops patrolling the platforms with long rifles!