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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes but the damage has been done, [b]fare evasion has spread to general lawlessnes, can’t easily turn that back around[/b].  WMATA touts the new gates as reducing fare evasion by 70 percent but that was only at first.  Now it’s a game: they vault thru the gap, or grab the door before it closes, or crowd in behind a farepayer, etc.  
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Actually, it can turn around pretty quickly.  These were high school (middle school?) kids.  Already kids are recovering from the damage of 1-2 years of virtual/hybrid school (or no school).  The current lawless kids will graduate (or stop going to school) and the kids who replace them will come of age in a time of increasing law enforcement rather than decreasing law enforcement.  This is one of the few benefits of the criminals being juveniles.  They will grow up and the new minors will come of age in a different world.  [/quote]

It will take a lot further action. If you want toothless, you should look into the "tickets" for public smoking of marijuana. So toothless the cops don't bother writing them, even though it's fairly simple to follow the cloud of pot to the Tenley Whole Foods garage stairwell -for example- and find a few (or many) folks engaged in petty lawlessness to cite. The approval of dispensaries near schools doesn't bode well that our Council wants to turn anything around. They dont seem on board for the coming of age in a different world thing you describe, unfortunately.[/quote]

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