clarissa on Nostr: Oh my god we've been joking for years that if you got rid of all the transit cops you ...
Oh my god we've been joking for years that if you got rid of all the transit cops you could make trimet fareless, but looking at the last adopted budgets I think it's literally true that the salaries of the "safety personnel" are roughly the size of the fares collected from riders
It's a little hard to figure out because it was 53 million from riders estimated, and 59 million for safety and emergency personnel which does include more than cops but give that it's gone up by over 40 million in the past three years when they started hiring cops as fast as possible it's clearly mostly cops
so, yeah, it really is true that if we tossed transit cops we'd basically save enough to not have fares without changing anythine else about the budget
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It's a little hard to figure out because it was 53 million from riders estimated, and 59 million for safety and emergency personnel which does include more than cops but give that it's gone up by over 40 million in the past three years when they started hiring cops as fast as possible it's clearly mostly cops
so, yeah, it really is true that if we tossed transit cops we'd basically save enough to not have fares without changing anythine else about the budget
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