Think of all the money, real estate wealth, media presence and power that exists in NYC. This is why. NYPD can operate with impunity, because they know they wi

Think of all the money, real estate wealth, media presence and power that exists in NYC. This is why. NYPD can operate with impunity, because they know they will not be exposed by local media and will be backed up by the financial power they are protecting. Contrast this with any other city, whose police force may have unfortunate levels of systemic cover and approval, but nothing even close to NYPD. Additionally to all of that, the militarization of police forces that many seem to be aware of nationally, seems to have occurred with NYPD as much as any other force [0][1] (9/11 being the obvious reason). So they are extremely well funded, well supported, and "well" (over) trained as far as tactics and methods. There's also documented, but controversial [2] examples of some of this wealth and power mixing with ethnic conflict, that have resulted in shameful racist abuses of... well it isn't even police, but a sort of "private" force that a lot of people don't know about which has surprising amounts of funding and power. Fact that something like this even exists with limited coverage in media given the abuses is pretty surprising. [0] https://fpif.org/why-we-should-be-alarmed-that-israeli-forces-and-u-s-police-are-training-together/ https://fpif.org/why-we-should-be-alarmed-that-israeli-force... [1] https://documentedny.com/2018/09/12/report-criticizes-nypd-collaboration-with-israel/ https://documentedny.com/2018/09/12/report-criticizes-nypd-c... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/18/nyregion/brooklyns-private-jewish-patrols-wield-power-some-call-them-bullies.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/18/nyregion/brooklyns-privat...