I've had some pretty good interactions. Once, I was with a friend in NYC, and we were trying to walk crosstown but were blocked by barricades on 5th Avenue. I asked the cops there what was going on, and one said "Cops vs Rioters today. What side you want to be on?" His partner started cracking up and said "German American Parade" or some random things. (Come to think of this, this is no longer funny.) And in 1986, on the 4th of July, when about 2 billion people crammed into Manhattan for the Statue of Liberty rededication, 20-something me and my buddies were way down on the West Side, in a pretty industrial neighborhood, and the young cop said "you guys looking for a bar?" and we said "nah, just a bodega to buy beer," and he said (remember, this is pre-broken-windows, High Ed Koch days) "there's one two blocks south on the right.
You can easily deduce from this that I am white and middle class. I have other funny cop stories. And a lot of cops being jerks stories, but I walked away, because see above.
I grew up in a small rural town, as white as all of the other inhabitants (ok, there were four non-white students in my HS), and cops were pretty deferential if you hadn't committed a murder (as if anything like that happened there).I was chaperoned home by the cops more than once, but never charged with anything (though crom knows they had plenty of evidence).The point is, I didn't know until many, many years later that that wasn't how everyone was treated, and in fact, life was a helluva lot easier when cops just assumed younguns doing stupid shit were just younguns doing stupid shit, and they didn't deserve an arrest record, or a funeral, for doing it.
"When NYC police officers cannot even take meal without coming under attack, it is clear that environment in which we work has deteriorated to a critical level." https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
My sainted sister-in-law was a social worker, helping kids in bad situations. After a few years of that, she switched to elementary education... elementary special education, which also frequently involves kids in bad situations.
(Did I mention "sainted"? Because in addition to the above, she also managed to make my oldest brother tolerable to be around, and has put up with him for over a decade now. I'm pretty sure those count towards the required three miracles. 😜)
Unfortunately the source website isn’t available to us expats, so can anyone tell me if it seems this will result in any damages? Love to see a police union actually get schwacked for being unmitigated dicks.
I took the Spawn to the Shake Shack in Manhattan when we visited NY many years ago (they loved it, me, meh, not my taste). As I recall, they did not serve tampons or bleach shakes. 🙄
I've had some pretty good interactions. Once, I was with a friend in NYC, and we were trying to walk crosstown but were blocked by barricades on 5th Avenue. I asked the cops there what was going on, and one said "Cops vs Rioters today. What side you want to be on?" His partner started cracking up and said "German American Parade" or some random things. (Come to think of this, this is no longer funny.) And in 1986, on the 4th of July, when about 2 billion people crammed into Manhattan for the Statue of Liberty rededication, 20-something me and my buddies were way down on the West Side, in a pretty industrial neighborhood, and the young cop said "you guys looking for a bar?" and we said "nah, just a bodega to buy beer," and he said (remember, this is pre-broken-windows, High Ed Koch days) "there's one two blocks south on the right.
You can easily deduce from this that I am white and middle class. I have other funny cop stories. And a lot of cops being jerks stories, but I walked away, because see above.
I grew up in a small rural town, as white as all of the other inhabitants (ok, there were four non-white students in my HS), and cops were pretty deferential if you hadn't committed a murder (as if anything like that happened there).I was chaperoned home by the cops more than once, but never charged with anything (though crom knows they had plenty of evidence).The point is, I didn't know until many, many years later that that wasn't how everyone was treated, and in fact, life was a helluva lot easier when cops just assumed younguns doing stupid shit were just younguns doing stupid shit, and they didn't deserve an arrest record, or a funeral, for doing it.
What an awful thing for a community to go through. Thank goodness for Winston!!
The cops didn't plant coke on him, did they?
They are trained for urban warfare by DHS, and DEA teaches that we are all criminals.
"When NYC police officers cannot even take meal without coming under attack, it is clear that environment in which we work has deteriorated to a critical level." https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
They never caught the Hamburglar😲
They view themselves as an army of occupation when they actually are municipal security guards. This disconnect is a major problem with policing.
The false premise is acting to save a person's life is analogous to killing that person!
Bleach? They weren't protecting our morons-in-blue from from COVIID-19?
My sainted sister-in-law was a social worker, helping kids in bad situations. After a few years of that, she switched to elementary education... elementary special education, which also frequently involves kids in bad situations.
(Did I mention "sainted"? Because in addition to the above, she also managed to make my oldest brother tolerable to be around, and has put up with him for over a decade now. I'm pretty sure those count towards the required three miracles. 😜)
Unfortunately the source website isn’t available to us expats, so can anyone tell me if it seems this will result in any damages? Love to see a police union actually get schwacked for being unmitigated dicks.
He's suing for damages but I am betting there is no judge alive who will award them
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The NYPD was generous in providing full and complete proof of their defamation in their public comments. Protect and serve.
I took the Spawn to the Shake Shack in Manhattan when we visited NY many years ago (they loved it, me, meh, not my taste). As I recall, they did not serve tampons or bleach shakes. 🙄