June 20, 2024
All Aboard the Moral Panic
Now is the time to imagine alternatives to the endless cycle of crisis-primed carceral crackdowns
With each horror story from the city’s winding tunnels, increasingly documented in spectacular photos and videos, a collective fear resurfaces and takes hold in the media, typically helping to consolidate support for law-and-order ideologies. Violent crime, whether real or perceived, is seen by default as a crisis of public safety; but on trains and buses it is equally a matter of workplace safety.
