>>1999808I can see you have no idea how public policy works when there are multiple stakeholders with conflicting interests. Here's what would really happen:
1. New rule passed, police can beat and torture civilians for minor infractions "to create a deterrent". The public enthusiastically supports the new rules because people are sick of hobos pissing on the seats
2. Police being police decide that the subway is now where you can go and take out some stress on commuters.
3. "A few bad apples" (the average cop) gets addicted to stepping onto the train and shoving a baton up some rando's ass for failing to look adequately subservient. Numerous social media videos come out where there's a bunch of obese pigs tasing grannies to death while cumming in their kevlar tacticool cargo pants
4. Backlash happens, city council decides to undo the rules they passed earlier. Police union presidents issue direct death threats via social media to the families of all politicians involved in the backlash. City council backs down.
5. In an effort to appease the police, city council offers to re-classify $500 million in police equipment funding to call it "educational material". The next generation of MRAPs and Boston Dynamics Killdogs now have the Department of Education logo stenciled on them
6. Hobos continue pissing because the cops never had any intention of doing anything about that because it's inconvenient
7. Every cop now gets a third home in either Montauk or the Adirondacks (his choice), courtesy of taxpayers
