Fare evasion: Transit and legal advocates slam Mamdani’s NYPD for continuing ‘aggressive’ enforcement despite campaign promises to ease back

Fare evasion: Transit and legal advocates slam Mamdani’s NYPD for continuing ‘aggressive’ enforcement despite campaign promises to ease back

The Legal Aid Society on Friday took Mayor Zohran Mamdani's NYPD to task, charging that it has maintained the same "aggressive enforcement" of fare evasion carried out by the previous mayoral administration of Eric Adams. Phil Desgranges, attorney-in-charge of criminal law reform at Legal Aid. contended that the NYPD's continued enforcement of the low-level infraction disproportionately impacts people of color. “This data makes clear that Mayor …