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I cry foul on this. The only reason the transit police might be getting out and about more these days is because they've read their own bad press and are trying to show some usefulness. Here's my simple math: 230,000 fare checks over 20 days (just the weekdays in September), is 11,500 per day. Even assuming only 100 officers were working on any given day, that is only 115 fare checks per officer per day. That's approx. the full capacity of just a single b-line bus. So even if it took them 30 minutes to check those passengers, what were they doing for the rest of the day? As for the tickets (which work out to only 1-2/day per officer), the numbers are likely down due to the fact that folks can just say "sorry, I don't have any ID" and the police are stymied.

And what does this part of the story mean: "and officers are paid an extra five per cent." So on top of doing very little, they got a raise? This while drivers' are offered just 1% a year. Shameful.