"some tenants complaining" is a wild understatement of the scale of the likely fallout from a total ban on rent regulation.

And the ensuing chaos isn't exactly what they'd be worried about. The "republican judges evict 1 million families" headlines are what they'd think twice about.

As much as the SCOTUS conservatives love to fuck over poor people, they also have at least some awareness of the level of shitstorm their rulings can cause, and the potential political fallout.

Nullifying rent regulation completely would be one hell of a shitstorm. One third of NYC households would instantly be put in a very precarious situation.

But how precarious? Yes, the overwhelming majority of landlords are vultures, and we could expect them to immediately raise rents.

But with a critical mass of over 1 million households, how the fuck would the NY Sheriffs managed to evict anyone? Eviction notices on that scale could very plausibley lead to at least some level of armed insurrection.

So you're just a bootlicker?

How about instead of fining parking officers who let placard abuse slide, we just move parking enforcement and internal affairs to be under the control of an elected public defender's office?

Tell me you have a placard and you use it to get away with parking like a douche without telling me you have a placard and you use it to get away with parking like a douche.

This doesn't fix the problem with placard abuse.

This just adds one more place where traffic and parking enforcement will refuse to write tickets on cars with placards, out of professional courtesy.

The only way to stop placard abuse is to punish parking enforcement officers who refuse to write tickets on placarded cars.

This is what happens when you ask an AI to draw you Samuel L Jackson guest staring on South Park in the role of a garbage bin.

I'd love to see a law that says a cop caught wantonly falsifying evidence faces a mandatory minimum sentence equal to however much time their false evidence put an innocent person away for, with no statute of limitations.

From a philosophical standpoint point, you just wrote some spectacularly dimwitted both-sides-ism.

Fixed headline:

Mount Sinai management is investigating ways to smear organized labor.

Interesting, but irrelevant to the crime. Driver had no way of knowing anything about him.

A lot of the time the license plate readers can read them anyway. The cameras can read the letters and numbers because of their height.

Call in sick.

He can't stop it now. Adams can.

Fuck Eric Adams.

If you strike I will bring you donuts on the picket line.
(Or some other healthier treat of similar value if you prefer.)

Not enough time between the video being released and the announced time of protests.

Also this video is awful but it doesn't have the same close up or broad daylight smirking evil of the cops who murdered George Floyd while bystanders begged them to stop.

And, yes, as others have said, it's winter. And society doesn't have the same pent up rage as it did in the summer of 2020 - but that doesn't mean we're immune to serious civil unrest. Cops will keep committing atrocities. It's only a matter of time before another video comes out midweek, in the summer.

George Santos won't leave until a reporter asks him the magic question:

"Are you actually Sacha Baron Cohen in disguise?"

At which point, Cohen will say yes, and peel off his mask, Scooby Doo style.

The weight allowed for opioids is too much.
Half an ounce of heroin is much more than a personal use quantity of heroin.

Decriminalizing that amount means any street level dealer who knows the details of the law could only be arrested during a controlled buy, not if they're searched for some other legitimate reason.

Lower that weight limit. Create more safe injection sites.

Otherwise this seems like generally good policy change.

This part is definitely good:

"SB2340 would also repeal two other laws in New York: one that makes it a crime to inject someone else with drugs, even with their consent; and another that makes everyone present liable for a drug possession charge if drugs are found in a car or in a room."

Absolutely insane that you can get charged for possession for being in the same room as a controlled substance, and we all know that a law like this mostly gets used as leverage against underprivileged people in plea bargaining or other forms of legal arm twisting.

well established court precedent: "come at me bro."

Eric Adams lies a lot.

He's a psy-op created to make Eric Adams look honest.

It takes hard work to get yourself to a point in life where the whole world finds you less credible than Jussie Smollett when you say you got attacked.

Things that can cause expensive lawsuits get fixed pretty quick. a loose great is one of those things.

yet another headline blaming the machine that killed something instead of the person driving the machine.

LOL. Goldman Sachs does not want to give small businesses a lift. They want to make small businesses dependent on their loans rather than loans from competing vampires, and they want to extract as much debt service cost as possible from them.

To hit 100k walking dogs at $35 per walk, you'd need to do 57 walks per week, with two weeks off.

Walking more than one dog at a time, that's actually not impossible to do as one person. I see walkers with a dozen dogs in the park all the time.