Classique

3y

There's also way less space now compared to before covid with the outdoor dining structures removing one lane from each side of the road making bikes, cars, and people closer to each other. People have also been able to get away with more the Floyd protests and covid in general feel like more stuff is sliding

BlueChew Sean

3y

Wait wait wait.. 2 FELONY charges??

babylon sherm

3y

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

gabapentin

3y

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

babylon sherm

3y

Yeah that's a good point as well, the city wants outdoor dining to stick around forever (which is great) but also has no real plan for people in booths not to get plowed into by cars, when these streets are already thin as f***

mctate

3y

op tried to make it about white privilege but it sounds like you can just kill someone driving and get away with it nowadays wtf

ImAUsernameLike

3y

didn’t Nicki allude to her dad being super abusive in her early music?

RareRarFiles

3y

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

JR

3y

Forgot the name of the song but it was a Beanie Sigel - Feel it In the Air freestyle

That's still her pops though.