i was just there for the first time saturday night. cool spot you got there, man

hey, thanks for dragging this down fully into the Personal Insult Zone so you can feel like you don't actually have to address anything i said to you in any substantiative way, but let's end with this: the onus is not on the civilian to solve your job's massive and catastrophic public relations crisis. i'm a middle class, white, professional adult and in theory my demographic is among the force's least adversarial. people like me are among the least at mercy of that power structure. no one should have to take a little spin in your cruiser to have basic faith in the police as a basically positive force. until non-offenders on the police force are willing to grapple with the institution's serious problems in good faith, the problem will continue to fester. later skater!

yes, this kind of kneejerk assessment of an individual giving you quantifiable pushback on unsubstantiated assertions certainly tracks.

oh okay. systemic problems that are severe and rampant enough to be reported routinely upon and that weigh heavily on public perception of this entire profession across the entire united states are, like, good actually. my bad.

i think you'll find that doctors pay out the ass for things like malpractice insurance. who pays out the ass when a cop fucks up? let me know. like, sure, yes, thank you, it is an unquestioned fact that cops are "human beings and we’re going to make mistakes", that's certainly not something most people particularly question. the issue lies in the level of personal accountability and consequence a police officer typically faces & the extreme ways in which that differs from consequences incurred under anything resembling similar circumstances by anyone inhabiting virtually any other profession despite the outsize level of power involved. i don't think you're at all making the point you hope to make by drawing a close comparison between health care and law enforcement.

(and for the record: https://news.yale.edu/2020/01/28/estimates-preventable-hospital-deaths-are-too-high-new-study-shows ["you're filtering all this through your own experience!" "how many doctors/nurses do you know of who have been fired?" i... know of a fucking ton, actually? maybe make up your mind about your stance on anecdotal evidence within this conversation.])

anyway, ultimately: hard pass to a free ride in your cop car, lmao. nice try.

>Are you afraid of having your mind changed?

https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/CT-state-police-accused-of-wrongdoing-17220971.php

https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Lawmakers-call-state-police-misconduct-a-17242943.php

https://www.ctpost.com/projects/2021/police-misconduct

lmao, nope! in fact what i'm afraid of is cops. it's a pretty normal way to feel about a professional class that has the power to completely alter or even end my life with limited, if, any, consequence - & who routinely, documentedly abuse that power. maybe you should be concerning yourself with the behavior & actions of the folks who inhabit your profession rather than coming at civilians grousing about rightfully earned negative public perception. your real problems are in-house.

in fact my "experience is filtered" through my own personal experiences with cops, my own loved ones' direct experiences with cops, & state/national statistics, but go off.

uh, what

nice edit, dipshit.

for those reading at home, the original thing this winner felt compelled to contribute was to tell me that the drivers were in no way at fault & to "get back in the bike lane, hippie".

oh, assuredly. it's been such an incredibly fascinating experience for so many other people, why would i be any different?

lol except the police haven't been fucking defunded, so

it didn't "neuter" them, it straight up turned a broad swathe of these grown-ass professional adults into sulky little "we'll show YOU" type diaper babies who deliberately withhold some degree of effort on the job because nobody appweciates them.

possibly the families of the state-record-breaking 66 pedestrians & bicyclists killed by cars this year

everything okay with them? they're nice guys.

man when i walked by & saw that GOING OUT OF BUSINESS sign my heart just totally dropped. devastating!! i know there was some weird rumbling on twitter for a minute regarding some folks who were considering buying it & running it as a collective, anyone have any word about that?

also, tangentially related, any movement on that place "CanTean" next door? it seems like they installed the sign and then nothing ever happened. what is with that spot?

right? my goodness.

okay

absolutely incredible that they somehow managed to do worse than nothing!

um, calm down?

wow. honest to god that would make me nervous. were there any, like, chalk outlines on the livingroom floor? bloody gloves under the sink? does a shrieking wraith appear in the bathroom mirror at midnight? it's gotta be something.

that's always been my understanding in this city, but i dunno, man, last november i was trying to help a new colleague find a place to live in the city and shit was WILD. i remember in particular this bullshit third floor walkup two-bedroom in east rock that was basically a half-assedly refurbished attic with some partitions. the "kitchen" was mainly an old stove sort of randomly placed in a room, there was no kitchen counter at all. they wanted $2500. it had been snapped up within a week. i think you got pretty lucky, and i'm glad for you. i find these kinds of posts so deeply anxiety-inducing these days.

oh man, before we bought a place i lived on pearl street for MANY years. absolutely loved it there.

god, please shut up

holy shit, REALLY?

conversely, do you think it IS especially helpful to keep hammering it on OP that they're having difficulty because of the dogs? like yeah, no kidding dude. what's OP supposed to do about that exactly?

why'd he kick you out if he's gonna keep renting it? that sucks.

edit: my reading comprehension also sucks, evidently! just noticed that you already answered this question. i sure wish people were more reluctant to do this kind of thing to others. i can't personally imagine blithely removing someone from their longterm home because i feel like i kinda want it for me, but that shit happens all the time.