 The coordinated efforts resulted in a five-swiper ring being disbanded and sentences of over one year being imposed.Measuring impacts of taking down fare abuse operations is difficult, because even large swiper rings ‘sell’ very few fares compared to natural day-to-day fluctuations of the 8.0 million riders on NYC's system due to reasons like weather or special events.The most important evasion fighting tool is arguably comprehensive and functioning legal frameworks to deal with evaders and counterfeiters.