NYPD targets blacks and the poor for arrest for harmless crime of fare evasion or turnstile hopping

With U.S. crime rates at historic lows not seen since the 1950s, the NYPD has decided to ramp up its harassment of citizens. After all, if there are fewer murders, rapes, and armed robberies, then law enforcement should shift its efforts to relatively harmless offenses like jay-walking, selling cigarettes without a license and, now, turnstile […]