LinkNYC WiFi kiosks are hubs for pervs and vagrants, business leaders say

Why are these physical kiosks at ground level rather than merely networking hardware mounted somewhere unobtrusive that would serve the same purpose without attracting transients.

Furthermore people who scatter their drug paraphernalia and needles everywhere, who threaten people, who assault people, who perform certain lewd acts named in the article ought simply to be jailed.

We should try to help people but we can't fix everyone's problems and the 0.1% shouldn't be free to spoil the city for the other 99.9%.