The NYPD Spent $150 Million to Catch Farebeaters Who Cost the MTA $104,000 - Hell Gate
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The massive increase coincided with just a two percent decrease in serious crime.
  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
    1511·
    1 year ago

    This sounds like the NYPD working like the Mafia, no work and no show jobs, taking jobs that they know they’re not gonna do or investigate. They’re stealing from the city to make their officers and departments richer.

    You get your car stolen, or robbed and you can’t find a cop to even pretend they give a shit. But they’re happy to take $150 million off our ass.

        • agitatedpotato@lemmy.world
          9·
          1 year ago

          “Yeah officer they’re still there and they’ve been monologing for two episodes, come now, they’re distracted.”

          • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
            5·
            1 year ago

            “Come quickly before he remembers the good memories he made with his friends and get a power up!”

      • abraxas@sh.itjust.works
        9·
        1 year ago

        Yeah. Not just NY, either. About a decade back where I live we called the cops about a curb-stomping we witnessed living across the street from the local bar. We had our radio on. Here was the timeline.

        1. We call and report it
        2. Bouncer comes outside of the bar and says “I just got a call there’s a fight going on. You guys gotta break it up; the cops are coming”
        3. Wait 5 minutes, as the victim gets told to leave and “go clean up” and the attacker walks back into the bar.
        4. Dispatch (who has been quiet) reports on radio that somebody reported a fight in front of that bar
        5. Wait 5 more minutes (did I mention the station is about 0.5 miles from this bar? In a small town with no traffic?)
        6. One officer shows up, looks around without asking anyone anything
        7. Radio back to dispatch “no fight here”

        The end. We identified ourselves in our report, the officer declined to visit and question us. There were at least 5 eyewitnesses, and we live in a town that they’d probably talk… but nope.

    • Psychodelic@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t it absolutely asinine that new york voters literally elected a fuckin cop from the NYPD, which is well-known as being one of the most corrupt and racist police departments in the nation?

      I honestly couldn’t believe it even after all the 2020 protests against American law enforcement.