Subway fare dodgers steal $285 million per year, so spending $150 million to try to stop or prevent that in the future isn’t that unreasonable. It turns out to have not paid off because they only caught people who owe an equivalent to $100k.
I imagine that they assumed the increased surveillance would prevent some unknown amount of future fare dodging which can’t be quantified because the overall trend seems to be increasing.
Subway fare dodgers steal $285 million per year, so spending $150 million to try to stop or prevent that in the future isn’t that unreasonable. It turns out to have not paid off because they only caught people who owe an equivalent to $100k.
I imagine that they assumed the increased surveillance would prevent some unknown amount of future fare dodging which can’t be quantified because the overall trend seems to be increasing.