why the police were cracking down on people who weren't paying their subway fares. well, if you're going to use the subway, you're supposed to pay the 2.75, not hop over the gates. brooklyn has been the focus, there's also been anger about video showing a 15-year-old who was punched by the police. we don't know what happened right before that frame in the video, so this goes back and forth. guess who's weighing in? alexandria ocasio-cortez, of course, she says on twitter: ending mass incarceration means challenging a system that jails the poor to free the rich. arresting people who can't afford a $2.75 fare makes no one safer and destabilizes our community. new yorkers know that, they're not having it, and they're standing up for each other. pete: absolute lunacy. destabilizes our community to enforce the rule of law? we had three nypd officers on the program earlier who broke this down. and one of the guys who worked at the mta said almost everybody