It seems to me that MARTA Police lack the intelligence to make individual decisions on a case by case basis. Cases like this one could be handled differently if the MARTA officer took the time to get the facts from BOTH parties. Once the officer realizes that no scalping has occurred and the individual was helping another passenger out of his own goodwill, then the officer could give a warning and advise them of the rules. Obviously, the MARTA Police Officers are not intelligent enough to be allowed to exercise their individual thinking and thought solving process.

Unfortunately, when we are dealing with any part of the public government, there is a lack of the ability for public officials to be able to be allowed to make intelligent individual decisions on a case by case decision.

That is especially true of our public (government)school officials. There is a national epidemic of public(government)school officials who are not allowed to make intelligent individual decisions on a case by case basis.

You hear about it in almost any state every year when we are dealing with government schools and government police who are not allowed to make "sane" intelligent decisions on a case by case decision.
One case in particular that comes to my mind is from somewhere in Texas, but cannot remember the county or city involved.
An honors student had gone to the Texas State Fair the night before. During a routine walk through a student parking lot a school official noticed a small 6 or 8 inch bat in a pile of stuffed animals and other items he brought home from the state fair the night before. The student who owned the car was summoned to the office and the school resource officer sent to the parking lot to see the loot in the car. The student was sent out to open his car for the officer. When the student explained to the officer he had been to the Texas state Fair and did not take the time the night before to clean his car of items he had brought home he was placed under arrest. This honors student with no record at all of ever causing problems in school was placed under arrest for "possessing" a deadly weapon on school grounds. The weapon in this case was the small souvenier bat emblazed with the name of the "Texas State Fair" on it. This was no doubt an honest mistake on the part of this student and the school and police knew it but they were bound by the law.
This type of unintelligent over-reaction has occurred in every state for several years by school officials and police who refuse to make decisions on a case by case decision.
I understand more than many about the need to keep our schools safe, but sometimes we go overboard, even when someone has made an honest mistake and NEVER INTENDED to harm anyone, such as this honor student in Texas. I was working EMS when the high school shooting occurred in Blackville years ago, and I was one of the EMT's who responded to that tragic deadly shooting, so I understand the need to control the safety of our schools, but common sense and intelligent decisions should be allowed in certain cases.