1. Among the Giuliani strategies is the stepped-up ticketing of people caught drinking and urinating in public, scrawling graffiti, jumping subway turnstiles and riding bicycles on sidewalks. 2. Arrests are now routine for drinking in public, jumping subway turnstiles, playing loud music and other minor offenses that had been ignored for years. 3. He first ordered patrol officers to bring misdemeanor offenders, like people who jumped subway turnstiles or drank in public, into station houses for warrant checks. 4. Nor will there be a latter-day Mother Abbess imploring her to climb mountains of commuters or jump every turnstile, for that matter. 5. Passengers were permitted to jump the turnstiles. 6. Police said they arrested one of two young men who jumped the turnstile with Perkins. 7. Two days before the Harlem massacre, Ligon was arrested by transit officers for trying to jump a turnstile in the subway. |