Two lawmakers from Brooklyn are hoping that arrests for turnstile jumping in the subway gone.
State Senator Jesse Hamilton and Assembly member Tremain Wright said Tuesday that they officially want to decriminalize those acts, initiating the adoption of the law.
Decriminalization would mean the exclusion of acts from the category of offences in class A, for which Commission may be sentenced to imprisonment for a period of 1 year. Instead, lawmakers propose to keep only a fine of $ 100.
Lawmakers say that the high cost of travel is pushing for such crimes are mostly young people and African Americans, Hispanics, etc. Of the 29 000 people arrested in 2015 in connection with jumping the turnstile in the subway, 92% were not white.
According to Hamilton and Wright, the penalty will be to provide the necessary preventive effect on offenders, after all, to risk reputation and his own purse for 2.75 dollar not everyone wants.
Has already prepared the bill S. 4841-B lawmakers plan to submit before the state Assembly in January next year.
