> The 21-year-old victim was demonstrating with other people on West 116th Street just before 8 p.m. Monday when a man she didn’t know approached her and punched her multiple times in the head, causing her to pass out, cops said.

Good question.

Is there a specific legislation that enables tickets to be issued based on speed camera evidence?

I think it'd be highly unpopular to allow cops to issue summons for any violation they have not witnessed.

Is it legal to carry a stun device / taser and zap an uncontrolled dog that is committing any violence?

>“no issue observed.”

lol, that may be factually true, but it doesn't say they didn't send any person to try to observe it.

From the article, it seems that the issue is the lack of personnel to respond to 311 calls appropriatelly.

>“The problem is there isn’t an additional set of officers, … so in terms of priority, we’re gonna respond to [a 911 call] first and then once we’re done we eventually return and respond to the 311,” said Souffrant.

I think the solution is to have more people who have the power to issue summons?

On another post we had officers with guns to check fare evasion. I don't think a full blown cop should be needed to issue a citation.

That tracks: https://www.nycourts.gov/mysummons-nyc/Summons.pdf

>I personally observed the commission of the offense charged herein. False statements made herein are punishable as a Class A Misdemeanor pursuant to section 210.45 of the Penal Law. Affirmed under penalty of law.

So if the officer attested to that falsely he/she would be committing a misdemeanor.

I've edited my original comment to reflect the above.

>“We as officers can only write summonses to vehicles we personally observe — not a picture,” said Souffrant

That's actually a legit argument because the summons requires the officer to attest to personally observing the covered plate.

But since the attorney got arrested, if the attorney later introduces those photos as evidence, and that's accepted by the court, can't the police use that evidence to issue the violation to the driver retroactively?

I think the driver would also have to attest to what was damaged in the first place, and by doing so, admit that the plate was covered, right?

There are many cheaper places with warmer climates, where 150k would be pretty sizable. That's in addition to his fixed retirement income by the way.

So that seems like a choice.

Younger male and liberal is the majority on Reddit. That alone would already skew the sub towards a population that feels less vulnerable or do not worry as much about public safety.

The fact that so many lack the empathy to understand the reality of others is probably related to something else, though. Because I know many young liberal men who have a lot of empathy.

>About seven-in-ten (71%) of Reddit news users are men, 59% are between the ages of 18 and 29, and 47% identify as liberal, while only 13% are conservative (39% say they are moderate).
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>In comparison, among all U.S. adults, about half (49%) are men, just 22% are 18- to 29-year-olds and about a quarter (24%) say they are liberal.

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2016/02/25/reddit-news-users-more-likely-to-be-male-young-and-digital-in-their-news-preferences/

>Probably because that viewpoint is not shared by the vast majority of people who actually live in New York City.

Most people in NYC do care about public safety, and the redditors in this sub also upvoted many crime submissions to the top.

Many people don't want to believe other new yorkers care about public safety because they want to deny parts of the reality that they feel are inconvenient to their political biases.

During the experiment there was not enough clarity on what constitutes a “crime” post (a statement from the mayor about public safety? A news article about a suspect on the loose? A long-form article about a recently solved cold case? A recent traffic violation caught on camera? A violent felony caught on camera? An article about a proposed or past crime related legislation? …)

Because despite claims to the contrary, in practice that often resulted in confusion and disparate mod decisions.

Such lack of clear expectations is also at odds with Rule 2 in https://www.redditinc.com/policies/moderator-code-of-conduct

>Unions of employees working for me as a business owner are good, because the only person who suffers from that situation is me, and everyone in the union benefits.

Your employees can just quit and find a better job, no?

That's what they do with government jobs, for example:

>Among larger agencies, vacancy rates were highest at the Department of Buildings, at 24.2% (489 vacancies), the Department of Health at 19.1% (1,189 vacancies) and the Department of Social Services at 17.3% (2,256 openings).

https://www.thecity.nyc/2022/9/6/23340069/health-housing-buildings-public-sector-unemployment-rate-high

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>But you replace “me” in that arrangement with the general (tax paying) public, then the benefit to the union members has the potential to be entirely offset by the detriment to everyone else.

How so? You seem to be framing unions as a strictly zero-sum thing.

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>And, to the point of the guy I replied to originally, the public has the choice to change policy on public labor if needed.

If this sub is any indicator, our government would only employ people at minimum wages and fire people at a whim. Like https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-20221111-hihcpddocrfb3jq6toftxj5nee-story.html

In order words:

• If employees working for me (or for you) form an union: bad
• If employees working for other people form an union: good

>In the end CPS needs to be judged on their consistency and transparency.

Bingo.

CPS shouldn't be going around applying one standard for rich kids and another standard for poor kids. Or one standard for White kids and another Black kids. Or one standard for kids living in luxury apartments vs. kids living in poorer housing.

They should just be doing their job and assessing whether those kids are in a safe environment.

In the case at hand: it sounded kind of obvious those kids were living in a house with a dry powder keg.

>By the way, 150k won't get you much unless he moves out of the city entirely. When you realize that someone his age could live more than 10-20 years, that's a pitiable sum.

The median retirement savings for people 75 or older was 83k in 2019. In 2016 it peaked around 126k.

He already has his fixed retirement income. So the cash out sum of 150k would've been on top of that.

I'm still having a hard time feeling a lot of sympathy, if I'm being honest.

Reference: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scf/dataviz/scf/chart/#series:Retirement_Accounts;demographic:agecl;population:6;units:median;range:1989,2019

>The landlord’s latest offer still stands to move Mr. Roberts into a rent-regulated apartment in the neighborhood to better conduct repairs in his unit, according to Mr. Toonkel, the lawyer.

One of his neighbors accepted a 150k lump sum offer to move out.

I want to feel sympathy for someone "losing" their $450/mo lease deal, but I've got to admit it's not easy.

Edit: that lump sum alone would've put him above the median savings for people above 75-year-olds https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scf/dataviz/scf/chart/#series:Retirement_Accounts;demographic:agecl;population:6;units:median;range:1989,2019

> Police found the mother on the third floor of the building naked and “acting irrationally,” with the bathroom tub overflowing and flooding the building, cops said.

If CPS knew and didn’t do anything, that seems like gross negligence.

This was the removed post with the same story:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/z3lk7x/street_life_nycs_delivery_workers_navigating_low/

Don’t expect any consistency in the moderation because the rules are too vague.

Which part of the city do you live or go to work/school?

>“This sort of crowdsourced surveillance will only lead to more wrongful arrests, racial profiling and police violence,” Albert Fox Cahn, the organization’s executive director

Albert Fox Cahn made that claim without providing any evidence to support it. Why is Hurubie Meko from the NYT printing such things?

Is there any editor worth the salt working in the NYT these days?

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>“The NYPD has never been a good neighbor to most New Yorkers, and this move will only put more people at risk,”

Albert Fox Cahn is just the typical propagandist who shares responsibility for spreading and amplifying harmful distrust in the NYPD. The NYT should not be giving air to such narratives that disproportionately harm the most vulnerable segments of our population.

Arthur Cooke was a solid contributor to the community.

It’s really hard to overstate how destructive such violence is to the health and growth of our communities. And how such violence is part of the root cause perpetuating the disparities we have.

And it’s absolutely exhausting to hear people downplay concerns about violence, as if violence was inconsequential.

https://abc7ny.com/carjacking-new-york-fatal-incident-atvs/12485117/

>Man dies after being surrounded by 30 ATVs and carjacked following fender bender
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>HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) -- A man has died weeks after his car was surrounded by 30 ATVs in an assault and carjacking following a fender bender.
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>...
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>Several members of the group surrounded and attacked Cooke, who was allegedly on a date with his significant other at the time, according to a GoFundMe page.
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>At least one person pull a gun on him before a man, who is not believed to be involved in the beating, reportedly drove off from the scene in Cooke's luxury car.
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>The victim was known to be a court special advocate for Exodus Transitional Community.
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>..
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>Exodus' mission is to support justice-impacted individuals who are incarcerated and after they get out. We support them throughout their journey, including often hiring them to be part of our organization so they too, just like Arthur, can give back."