"Back to work today, forgot my pass so locked bike outside Cannon Street station.
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@futurebird @notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom Yeah there are assholes in every profession. No accounting for incompetence. But I never heard anything even hinting at what you were fearing was unspoken or spoken policy. I likely would’ve. And I did hear lots about trying to reduce cyclist and pedestrian deaths. So {shrug}
@fuzztech @notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom
I grew up in a suburb and when I first moved to NYC I found the general ire for NYPD perplexing. The most charitable reading is that they still are acting as if the city hasn’t changed since the 70s — NYPD act as if they are an underfunded city service tasked with policing an impossibly violent and chaotic city.
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@fuzztech @notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom
I grew up in a suburb and when I first moved to NYC I found the general ire for NYPD perplexing. The most charitable reading is that they still are acting as if the city hasn’t changed since the 70s — NYPD act as if they are an underfunded city service tasked with policing an impossibly violent and chaotic city.
@fuzztech @notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom
But in reality they are exceptionally well funded and your average New Yorker is rather docile and grew up watching shows that said cops are heroes.
And one might stay that way were it not for one bad experience after another. I’ve spoken to police some 15 times over 20 years living here and always gone in trying to be helpful — in half of these cases it was frankly scary.
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@fuzztech @notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom
But in reality they are exceptionally well funded and your average New Yorker is rather docile and grew up watching shows that said cops are heroes.
And one might stay that way were it not for one bad experience after another. I’ve spoken to police some 15 times over 20 years living here and always gone in trying to be helpful — in half of these cases it was frankly scary.
@fuzztech @notoriousiptg @mjr @MarkHoltom
I would be irrational not to notice a pattern.
And this is kind of a huge problem since it’s really typical. In a city like this they should be more popular— but they aren’t.And part of that is they don’t really see how the city has changed.
