babylon sherm

2y

Someone killed a toddler recently in the Bronx from driving recklessly and they didn't even get charged, NYPD doesn't prosecute traffic s*** at all

babylon sherm

2y

I honestly have no idea, You could easily meet 5x the quota of arrests or tickets or w/e by enforcing existing traffic law here. It's cool to see ATVs and s*** but way less cool in every other aspect lol

Right after the Floyd protests, NYPD stopped doing s*** for traffic - like they publicly stated it to at least some effect, lemme try to find that so I know I didn't make this up... but I think it stemmed from 1) cops are lazy above all 2) this was at a time when a lot of cops were out due to covid or quit to refuse the mandate, so there were ostensibly lower numbers of employees to investigate reports (if you believe NYPD logic)

S*** is scary if you try to ride a bike in a Brooklyn bike lane, it's been a record high the last two years for people getting mowed down by cars - no joke these days its a 20% chance you get at least hit

Part of me thinks we're just so deeply car-centric now that people in the justice system don't want to be hard on negligent drivers, whether its cops or jury members or a judge or w/e. They really think "well, that mom with her kid should have been more aware of the Escalade, I mean how was the driver supposed to see them? It's a big car!" as opposed to the other way around

kyzer kta

2y

damn yall makin new york sound like crazy taxi

cole breezy

2y

Hating on Nicki is corny when she been through s*** like this

Kabel

2y

this is a tragedy. her music is still garbage.

NDL DOOM

2y

I wonder why he only got one year

gabapentin

2y

I feel like it’s gotta be the result of some ever-increasing irreconcilability in the tension between NYC being, in some ways, the least car-centric city (at least for some groups/classes/boroughs) but nevertheless obviously home to millions of cars

The car owning class increasingly defensive against the pedestrian rabble

Edit: Ironically it’s obvious to the law and order types who fulminate over le bail reform that people randomly erupting in spurts of violence against strangers on the street is undesirable, yet cars are wholesome and middle class, so if you just randomly run over a stranger it’s not a serious breach of public safety lol

Kabel

2y

this is a tragedy. her music is still garbage.

Nevada

2y

Hit and run..

Pretty cut and dry

MLI

2y

didnt even recognize that

RestDigest

2y

damn. was the dude drunk driving?

NDL DOOM

2y

I wonder why he only got one year

babylon sherm

2y

Someone killed a toddler recently in the Bronx from driving recklessly and they didn't even get charged, NYPD doesn't prosecute traffic s*** at all

JR

2y

My friend was hit by a car in Long Island too in 2010. The dude who killed her got no time.

RareRarFiles

2y

So you telling me you can kill a nigga with your car and get 1 year in NY? Why these niggas still using guns

babylon sherm

2y

I honestly have no idea, You could easily meet 5x the quota of arrests or tickets or w/e by enforcing existing traffic law here. It's cool to see ATVs and s*** but way less cool in every other aspect lol

Right after the Floyd protests, NYPD stopped doing s*** for traffic - like they publicly stated it to at least some effect, lemme try to find that so I know I didn't make this up... but I think it stemmed from 1) cops are lazy above all 2) this was at a time when a lot of cops were out due to covid or quit to refuse the mandate, so there were ostensibly lower numbers of employees to investigate reports (if you believe NYPD logic)

S*** is scary if you try to ride a bike in a Brooklyn bike lane, it's been a record high the last two years for people getting mowed down by cars - no joke these days its a 20% chance you get at least hit

Part of me thinks we're just so deeply car-centric now that people in the justice system don't want to be hard on negligent drivers, whether its cops or jury members or a judge or w/e. They really think "well, that mom with her kid should have been more aware of the Escalade, I mean how was the driver supposed to see them? It's a big car!" as opposed to the other way around