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A bus once hit our car while my spouse was driving, tore the front bumper off. NYPD took 2 hours to show up, refused to do any kind of report- said they only do a report when someone damages a bus, not the other way around. Took a year to get the city to pay for less than half of the damage.
NYPD doesn’t even bother to show up for car accidents that don’t involve a serious injury… on one hand it’s super frustrating but on the other they probably have bigger things to worry about
The NYPD budget is over $6,000,000,000. The same as the military spending of entire countries. They don't have bigger things to worry about, they have bigger toys to buy.
The NYPD own two cargo planes. The cost of those alone could have been used to tackle accident prone areas or increase public transit.
fuck the nypd.
but two cargo planes? are you referring to the single surveillance plane they run, the cessna caravan? or am I missing something?
I doubt they run cargo, it's almost certainly kitted out with elint and tracking gear, probably multiple sets of different kinds of cameras (FOVs and zoom) and lots of antennas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department_Aviation_Unit
lots of helos.
anyway fuck the nypd, but yeah.