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If you aren't scared of the NYPD you aren't paying attention. A worldwide(1) force that often blurs lines between law enforcement and "cartel" behavior. 1. ht
by josefresco 2y ago
If you aren't scared of the NYPD you aren't paying attention. A worldwide(1) force that often blurs lines between law enforcement and "cartel" behavior.
1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/nyregion/terrorism-nypd-intelligence-crime.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/nyregion/terrorism-nypd-i...
Speaking of, this just broke: "The NYPD Is Tossing Out Hundreds of Misconduct Cases — Including Stop-and-Frisks — Without Even Looking at Them"
https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-tossed-out-police-misconduct-discipline-cases-edward-caban https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-tossed-out-police-mi...
- grugagag 2y agoLets not forget NYPD is just a drop in the bucket, the police is the whole US is wildly corrupted.
- wickedsight 2y agoIt's not just Police, it's judges and politicians too.
- grugagag 2y agoQuite possibly, I don’t doubt that. That still doesn’t change the fact that police is in dire need of reform.
- dzonga 2y agois that not the job of the FBI ? why does city police need a worldwide presence ?
- skyyler 2y agoWho’s going to tell them to stop?
- rbanffy 2y agoWho's going to make them stop?
- darby_nine 2y agoYou think anyone other than the idf could train someone to fart in a subway for eight hours a day while contributing nothing to society
- fakedang 2y agoWhy is police stationed in the subway a bad thing? In civilized countries, they barely do a bad thing but are very helpful in deterring would-be offenders, or helping out the subway staff. Most of the time, they're lowly constables and recruits doing national service. Of course, NY subway police is something else, and that's a very NY thing.
- darby_nine 2y ago> Why is police stationed in the subway a bad thing? Mostly, it's just a waste of money. Just move the fee collection to taxes and you can free literally hundreds of millions of dollars devoted to stationing cops and stop pretending that fare skippers are going to financially cripple the city. Cops can't keep up with the kids anyway. > Most of the time, they're lowly constables and recruits doing national service. "Service" is a reach given most of what they do is... nothing. Literally just standing around as a physical manifestation of security theater. If they want to be useful they can build housing or distribute food or bring people healthcare.
- fakedang 2y agoIt's "national service". A concept perhaps alien in the US, but basically most countries have a programme where eighteen-yr olds have to go through service in a government job, either in the army, police, fire or EMT. I mentioned that as the comment above mentioned the IDF. Police standing around in subways is still a deterrent from bad behavior, especially when coupled with a justice system that doesn't reward criminals. See Japan, Korea, Singapore, Dubai, Israel, etc.
- darby_nine 2y agoWell, until the cops start actually serving the public rather than being (again) security theatre, I stand by my skepticism. I understand other countries have much less organized-crime-like police cultures.
- NoGravitas 2y agoFormer NYC mayor Bloomberg once joked that the NYPD was his private army, and the 7th largest army in the world. This is hyperbole, but looking at staffing and budget, it actually is in the top 30, larger than that of many small countries.