Comments on: Eyes on the Street: NYPD Chivalry Is Dead on 34th Street

By: jd

jd — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:48:22 +0000

hey emily why can’t I have my own opinion. YOU THA TROLL

By: kaja

kaja — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:06:03 +0000

Streetsrage dot org indeed. Y’all are pretty easy to troll, which is sad ’cause you’re completely correct about the cops.

By: zach

zach — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:18:22 +0000

Maybe the 34th st BID requests the cop cars because tourists like to take photos next to them. Is that what’s happening in the middle picture above? Maybe we can replace the cars with elephants. They would be a bigger tourist draw, and with cops on them they’d probably get through traffic faster than police cars.

By: zach

zach — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:14:25 +0000

I like the ADA lawsuit idea.

By: Emily Litella

Emily Litella — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:40:59 +0000

I declare the troll fed! He may now be left alone in a corner all by himself. In future, please do not feed any wildlife that may wander into these hyar quarters.

By: jd

jd — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:12:31 +0000

btw why you so angry and uptight its only a blog?

By: jd

jd — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:11:46 +0000

haha your funny guess you don’t know any cops do you

By: Cap'n Transit

Cap'n Transit — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:07:51 +0000

I’m so glad that not every cop has the “with us or against us” mentality that Jd displays in this thread.

By: jd

jd — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:14:17 +0000

you people are insane peace out haters

By: Hi

Hi — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:57:57 +0000

JD: Why did you bring hugging trees into this conversation? If a police car blocks a bus lane, every bus carrying hundreds of people has to swerve into car lanes, which is a serious safety hazard as well as an inconvenience for the people on the bus. What they are doing is illegal, and they are supposed to be enforcing the law, not breaking it.

By: jd

jd — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:01:59 +0000

and btw those people up there were the ones making it about individual officers so idk what the fuck your talking about

By: jd

jd — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:59:59 +0000

why don’t you go hug a tree

By: Cap'n Transit

Cap'n Transit — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:17:14 +0000

Jd, will you get it through your thick head that this is not about individual officers? Stop crying wolf and save your thin-blue-line language for some time when it’s actually appropriate.

This is not about “liberals” against “the police.” This is about the decisions that the NYPD brass took with the support of the Commissioner and the Mayor that undermine transit in New York.

Yes, we also hate it when people park their personal cars in bus stops, but that’s thousands of people making thousands of individual decisions. This is a handful of people making a decision that inconveniences hundreds of others.

More importantly, the NYPD’s actions set an example. If whoever’s running these drills can decide that bus service is not as important as their non-emergency activity, then thousands of people around the city will decide that stopping their car to buy the Daily News is more important than bus service. Then if the NYPD gives them a ticket they think there’s no principle involved, and it’s all about revenue.

So yes, we understand that the cops are doing their job. We’re angry at the people who told them that their job is to block bus stops for no good reason. Now would you please lay off?

Psst… I heard that someone over on FreeRepublic said something about the NYPD that wasn’t so nice. Better go check it out!

By: jd

jd — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:01:25 +0000

I don’t even see the problem in this bus stop situation anyway. When I get let off the bus from anywhere in queens or Manhattan the bus never pulls into its bus stop because of a double parked car or truck so now that its just the police who can actually have the right to park there every liberal has something to say about them….. from how they take bribes to how they will there will be a lawsuit bc they are following guidelines you people aren’t even on the topic of the blog anymore.

By: jd

jd — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:55:09 +0000

and whiskeytango has no idea what hes talking about bc every precinct has crime and im sure bolier is not on there list of to dos

By: jd

jd — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:53:06 +0000

its more like 10 i was exaggerating so then mr andrew you call the mayor and tell him I bet he wont give a flying duck. bc hes the one who okay ed the terrorism programs as a long with the police commissioner himself. The police are just following guidelines.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:10:58 +0000

jd:

You are aware, I hope, that if 100 people need to converge from various points around the city to meet in Midtown Manhattan, there are ways to accomplish that aside from driving 100 cars and parking them in an active bus lane that serves thousands of bus riders per hour.

Incidentally, isn’t the NYPD setting itself up for an ADA lawsuit here? There’s no possible way for a wheelchair to get on or off of a bus if the bus stops look like this.

By: whiskeytango

whiskeytango — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:48:52 +0000

I just want to make a comment about the person who said that all the boros need to be up to date on certain situations. This is true as my sister is a PAPD officer and has routine terror training exercises. BUT these $%^& at the 111 couldn’t give a damn about ANYONE. The precinct is in a low crime area of queens and all they do is hand out tix. When an emergency does occur, like when a neighbor of mine was robbed and hogtied to his boiler for 2 DAYS, the precinct actually said (when called about the situation) we’re sorry but that isn’t our priority right now… we’ll send someone over in an hour or two. Tied up for 2 days, no food, water,,, no help from NYC BACON. Not hating on all cops, but 75% of them need to follow the credo on their vehicles… COURTESY(not likely to get), professionalism(only if in a restaurant/bagel store trying to get a free meal), Respect(good luck with that one… see next time if a cop ever greets you with a smile when asking them a ?) Signing off— ashamed of new york’s laziest.

By: jd

jd — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:12:23 +0000

why don’t you call up commissioner kelly then and the mayor

By: ddartley

ddartley — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:02:06 +0000

sorry, should be “some *other* way to do whatever they’re doing”