Not the board. The legislature. The governor, especially. Kathy needs to squirm a bit.

And not a single additional train.

For $10 billion.

While plutocrat assmunch James Dolan pays no taxes.

New York specifically is getting worse. Great swaths of the rest of the world have their shit together. New York is where expensive failure is applauded as if it was world-changing success.

MTA unions have to get on this, on behalf of their own members. The unions can get up in the face of the suits and politicos and ask why they have chosen to tolerate this.

Free internet is worthless if there’s no hot water and it’s 44 degrees inside in January.

With a record like NYCHA’s, why on earth would you expect them to execute and maintain internet service with any degree of competence?

Because the lawmakers tell the police to focus on what churns up the most fine revenue, or else. Then the lawmakers play dumb when a tragedy happens.

My “nobody” encompasses anybody with the authority to make changes - federal, state and local.

Instead, they still print everything - including the bills that they don’t get the chance to read before the vote.

And yet nobody has thought to update the regulations that require these monstrosities to be printed out.

> Hoping to address the uneven enrollment, officials also recently hired a consulting firm

Of course.

But they paid consultants $900m to find that they could save on concrete costs by building smaller tunnels. It was a worthwhile investment of $2.8 billion, the consultants said.

The legislature is supposed to come up with an enforcement budget when they write law that’s going to mean extra work/personnel.

Ideally.

But if all they’re about is free publicity, they blow that part off and leave it to somebody else to figure out.

They did do it already, back in 1985.

What they don’t do is enforce it. So they’re going to pass a redundant bill, pat themselves on the back for their performative compassion, then go right back to not enforcing it.

> Another person recently called Manitoba RCMP to inquire about where they could find a Zamboni that weekend, another example of a call that shouldn't be made to 911

Are we talking a regular Zamboni or a tactical assault Zamboni?

It’s not hypocrisy when they agree with the philosophy. They genuinely believe the same nonsense.

Somebody makes alligations like that, the only thing one can do is respond with a crocodile.

They have highly selective blinders on certain issues.

Tell it to the people who waste emergency response resources, and the politicians who enable them. A whole lot of access opens up then, but politicians don’t want to be in the position of saying “no” to anybody.

Nobody needs to try on a bag of chips to see if it fits.

So our law enforcement agencies are directed by elected officials to either

A) charge people with any ticky-tack BS that’ll stick, long as there’s some fine revenue in it, or

B) the San Francisco way, where shoplifting is all good long as you keep your haul under $900

And nothing in between.

Somebody find us a large city that’s not run by complete idiots. (American city. Copenhagen doesn’t count)

It’s not empathy people lack. It’s money.

The taxpayer is not a bottomless source of cash to set on fire. Especially not on behalf of people who should have been in custody all along, be it inpatient or plain old jail.

Fine, call them free if you'd like.

You still can't endlessly dump false-alarm and non-emergency calls on EMTs and expect them to sit there and take it. Not for any wage.

You also don't want cops responding to non-emergencies, do you? That's the leftist talking point, but when some eager beaver fresh out of the academy arrives on the scene because such is the insistence of the Reddit masses, don't be shocked when a mentally-ill repeat caller who should have been in an inpatient facility gets plugged.

Being drunk is rarely a 911-level emergency requiring ambulance response. Not unless somebody is driving drunk or aspirating on their own vomit.

And nobody needs EMT response multiple times daily.

It is nowhere near a small minority of the total responses - and that's the problem.

That "small minority" is responsible for a big mess.

While many 911 calls do merit an emergency police response, unnecessarily dispatching armed officers to calls where their presence is unnecessary is more than just an ineffective use of safety resources; it can also create substantially adverse outcomes for communities of color, individuals with behavioral health disorders and disabilities, and other groups who have been disproportionately affected by the American criminal justice system.

Did anybody in this thread ever think that maybe there was a progressive reason for not being a damn fool about people who abuse the system?

Not getting help?

First responders have to provide some kind of service to people they know full well are delusional because they've dealt with their shit thousands of times.

"One man with a cellphone has created enough havoc to be hauled over and over into court, but not enough to warrant a prison cell. He knows it’s wrong, and he apologizes to the judge, but he won’t stop*."*

...but whose cases account for countless hours in court, counseling sessions, medical appointments and other city services."

And we're on the hook for all of it. For everybody else in a city of 8 million who pulls this crap. Eventually some first responders figure out the calls are bogus but there's lots of turnover so it's a lesson that has to be repeatedly and expensively learned.

Services? There are craploads of services.

The services that work are the ones where he's put in a secure facility. With no phone.

They will cost less once the widespread abuse of the system is addressed.

24,000 bogus 911 calls from one person?

Thousands of calls from one person to the same nonexistent address?

On top of the usual deluge of frequent flyers, cranks, pranks, Karens, and lonely old people?

If nothing is done, that’s as good as condoning it.

If FDNY and every other first responder agency doesn’t have a chronic-caller strategy that results in the bogus calls stopping, that’s failure.