Demands to reform fare enforcement have been a frequent part of the discourse around improving New York’s transit system. But some abolitionist groups go further in calling for free fares as a step toward removing police from public transit entirely. In 2019, a group of riders founded Unfare NYC, a community network that uses social media to crowdsource alerts about police presence on public transit. In other words, if cities such as New York want to invest in making public transit free and accessible—in the same way that libraries and public schools are—they need to make it a priority in their budgets. The website 8 to Abolition, a resource of “non-reformist reforms” compiled in 2020, cast free public transit with investments in health care, education, and community-based food providers as two sides of the same coin.