Re:You can't have services without paying for them (Score 1)

I'm afraid you're wrong on all accounts. The reason for the police to catch dodgers would be that the dodgers are breaking the law. This is usually something the police cares about. There are police stationed in the subway, they even have their own division; the subway police. In Sweden ANYONE can detain (arrest) someone who commits a crime punishable by jail time. The police, the metro guards, my mother.. anyone. (RB 24:7 if memory serves me right). Riding the subway without a ticket is fraud which falls in the "jail time" category. There is one catch though. It is legal to ride the subway without showing our train pass and you can legally enter to enter the subway station by jumping the gates as long as you do have a train pass on you. If you do though, people would suspect that you are committing fraud (riding without a ticket) but the only ones allowed to detain based on suspicion are the police. There are examples of people trying to prove a point by jumping the gates and when they are arrested they show their metro card and try to turn the tables by arresting the metro employees who arrested them since they are illegally detaining someone who had not committed a crime.. nothing came of it though.