NYC police’s ‘quality of life’ strategy for subways: arrest food vendors
Clip of police handcuffing a woman selling churros at a subway station went viral as over-policing becomes a hot-button issue
Along with cat videos and TikToks, a relatively new type of clip has become fodder for thousands of users on social media: police in the New York City subway.
A growing archive of videos and pictures on social media have been held up as proof that the city’s subway system, run by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), is under excessive policing after it was announced in September that the MTA would be hiring 500 officers to join its police force.