It’s sorta the basis of the social welfare state. Criminalizing economic crimes only criminalizes poverty. By removing the gratuitous and wholly man made reason for the “crime” by removing the economic condition inherent in the crime you solve the problem in a far more humane way
Reminder that enforcing “fare evasion” has absolutely nothing to do with “saving tax payer money” and more often than not it’s far, far more expensive to police “fare evasion” than the money gained by enforcing it https://t.co/nks4SOJHbp