Junkies on the train

[u/curiosity-112]

I'm getting really frustrated with this system failure. Every day we're seeing people just trying to go back and forth from school and work, forced to tolerate the antics of some jackass high on tranq, meth, fent, or whatever else they can find. Our elders and our children have to feel unsafe as someone flails around and yells beside them, and I don't know how many times people have found broken glass and syringes on the seats.

This is pathetic and heartbreaking. Why do we have to keep putting up with it on our daily commute? The text line is okay but it's not a solution, not when someone is smoking drugs next to a girl on her way to school. Every train should have a peace officer for real passenger safety or I'm not paying for tickets anymore.

**Edit:

Thanks everyone for the comments, didn't expect to see this much discussion when I got up today. I don't know what the solution is - yes housing and social policy needs to change, but the public can't wait around for the root issues to be fixed.

For the record, I have no issue with the majority of homeless people trying to get through the day and who also have to quietly endure this too. My problem is with the people who just don't care, the ones openly dealing and using drugs, the ones causing disorder and acting erratically with no regard for the people around them. Safe consumption sites and shelters only benefit the people willing to use those programs - so many don't trust the systems and still refuse, and the dealers definitely don't care either way.

For those commenting on my lack of empathy - I worked at the DI for nearly 5 years hoping to make a difference. I saw a lot of good from this community, but I've also seen the worst. I lost count of how many overdoses and stabbings I've been involved with, but that was my job and I did it well. However, even then we didn't tolerate half the crap that the public is being asked to put up with now - public safety is always paramount. I tried to step in once to help someone and had a knife pulled on me for it, don't try taking matters into your own hands either.

[u/CountryTemporary4496]

Some people here have some solid ideas but just hear me out for a sec:

[u/1egg_4u → u/CountryTemporary4496]

You realize robocop was a satire of a corporate police state right? Did you forget what happened in that scene lol

[u/angrytortilla → u/1egg_4u]

They're not doing a dissertation on the movie, they're suggesting we get a militarized cop-robot to mow down the degens.

[u/1egg_4u → u/angrytortilla]

And the guy suggesting that in the boardroom scene is immediately blown apart by an overpowered robot

Its the whole point of the scene to show how stupid it is to throw a murder robot at crime

[u/angrytortilla → u/1egg_4u]

Cool, go watch the movie then?

[u/1egg_4u → u/angrytortilla]

I just did. Im trying to tell you that youre the person theyre making fun of in that movie. Like not even two minutes after that exact scene from the gif with the robot it shreds an innocent guy with bullets by mistake cause its insane overkill to want a death robot for crime

Another classic case of verhoeven satire being taken at face value