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It sounds like the person who obscured the license plate may have had some political clout (or been a friend of a cop). That is how the NYPD works these days.
by pclmulqdq 4y ago
It sounds like the person who obscured the license plate may have had some political clout (or been a friend of a cop). That is how the NYPD works these days.
- bradleyjg 4y agoThe NYPD union has negotiated an exemption from the requirements that most city employees have to live in the city (along with teachers and firefighters IIRC.) I think this should be revisited in the next contract negotiation.
- joncrane 4y agoA link to a prior tweet speculates that the owner of the car is a city employee.
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- bragr 4y agoThese days? Please be specific, when was the NYPD not like this? Unless you're counting when the mob controlled the NYPD as separate from people with clout. Here's a poster from 1887: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Citizen_asking_Mayor_Abram_Hewitt_for_protection_from_the_police.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Citizen_asking_Mayor...
- pclmulqdq 4y agoYou're right, of course. New York (and other major cities) has always corrupt as fuck.
- willcipriano 4y agoThat's how everything works these days.