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Especially in the city of New York, I sincerely believe a police officer butting a reflective vest on the front dashboard of their illegally parked car is enou
by collabs 7mo ago
Especially in the city of New York, I sincerely believe a police officer butting a reflective vest on the front dashboard of their illegally parked car is enough grounds for immediate dismissal/firing from the job and all retirement seized with no recourse. I don't know how we would make it legal but this is the kind of visible, petty corruption that makes people lose their respect for the system.
- ifh-hn 7mo agoThat seems a little over the top of a parking infraction... Maybe they should be summarily shot too.
- etchalon 7mo agoHow you went from "losing your government job and benefits due to corrupt behavior" and "well, may as well kill them!" is certainly interesting.
- awakeasleep 7mo agoIts a perfect demonstration of the topic in the thread: loss of privilege is equivalent to ending their life itself
- ifh-hn 7mo agoYou have clearly missed the point of my comment, I assume on purpose given the first sentence. The second sentence was clearly not serious, and was sarcasm, not some confirmation of "privilege mentality".
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- ifh-hn 7mo agoIt's not interesting it's over the top ridiculous just like the comment I was replying to.
- rcxdude 7mo agoI think the point is it's not the parking infraction: it's the attempt to get out of it by signaling that they are a police officer. I agree that kind of thing should be taken more seriously than the small offense it's trying to avoid (though maybe not quite so severely).
- ifh-hn 7mo agoI don't know, it depends on context and intent, like nearly all things. But this is put aside because most on HN immediately go: police == bad. If the cop is illegally parked to get lunch, sure ticket them, and/or report them for discipline. If the cop is attending an incident and that is the only place to park within a reasonable distance, then that's fine. However the suggestion that irrespective of context and intent, and even for the first contrived example, the cop should lose their job and pension... Ridiculous.
- tdeck 7mo agoFolks should Google "PBA card". I was shocked when I read about that practice.