The year is 2020, and everything you thought you knew just went out the window. The world is hit with a pandemic. There is civil unrest and political upheaval, the likes of which have not been experienced since the 1960s. There are calls for defunding the police and to decriminalize acts, including some that are specific to transit. There are several systems in the United States where fare evasion has been decriminalized or changed to a civil violation. This has had a profound effect on transit policing.