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and yet they continue to happen. does that give you pause as to the effectiveness of enforcement?

> Every single one of those things is illegal, and can be reported

Yet they're still common. I've reported them, and occasionally there's a fine, but at a certain point the cost of constantly reporting outweighs the benefit. It doesn't help that the TLC is a political position with the same financial conflicts of interests as the City Councilman who presented this bill [1].

[1] https://nypost.com/2018/01/27/taxi-committee-head-got-thousa...

Both of these are arguments for more regulation and enforcement, not less.

Yeah buddy, no one does illegal things! That'd be illegal!