The transit service for the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area is now using police officers to enforce bus fare payments, amid 70% of riders not paying and losing nearly $50 million annually in recent years, according to news reports.
“We’re not interested in citations,” Randy Clarke, general manager for the Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Agency, told WTOP news on Thursday. “We’re not interested in arrests. The less citations and less arrests, that’s success for us. We just want people to pay their fair share.”
