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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.
"I have my own army in the NYPD"
-Michael Bloomberg
Can you count, suckers?! I say the future is ours. If you can count.
Can you dig it? Can you dig it? Can you dig it?!
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.
bigger things to worry about
Somewhere in the city there's a black man who isn't being harassed.
The NYPD is very poor (arguably net negative) value for the money spent
Cops aren’t really there for traffic accidents.
At least in my state they don’t determine who is liable, they can only gather statements after the fact.
They will help control traffic and likely yell at you for not moving your car off the road if it’s drivable.
Oh and they’ll write a ticket.
Those cops broke city policy, probably in order to comply with unofficial precinct policy. Giuliani instituted a city-wide crime statistics system in 1994 called CompStat with the stated goal of making crime statistics public and accountable, but the real purpose is allowing police the final and only say over what crimes do or don't make it into official records so that they can support any crime narrative they'd like (Or just be selectively lazy and get away with it).
You guys see New York City?? Mine only shows car crashes :(
