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[City of New York] Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association boss Pat Lynch slashed the maximum number of cards that could be issued to current cops from 30 to 20, and to retirees from 20 to 10, sources told The Post.
The cards are often used to wiggle out of minor trouble such as speeding tickets, the theory being that presenting one suggests you know someone in the NYPD.
The rank and file is livid.
“They are treating active members like s–t, and retired members even worse than s–t,” griped an NYPD cop who retired on disability. “All the cops I spoke to were . . . very disappointed they couldn’t hand them out as Christmas gifts.”
Source: NYPost
The cards, issued for various states and agencies -- such as the DEA -- are available for purchase on eBay for around $100.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @01:50PM (9 children)
Always quick to ascribe arbitrary and capricious acts to foreign governments, while silently permitting the same to persist here.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Tuesday January 23 2018, @02:03PM (5 children)
Or, you could say, "always quick to call other governments blatantly corrupt, while not being any better".
The NYPD really looks a lot like the police in Mexico.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @02:26PM (4 children)
The difference being that in Mexico they usually dispense with the specially-printed cards and use commonly available, government-issued slips of coloured paper (aka money) right away.
This method is widely acknowledged as bringing equality to the country and efficiency to the process ... but of which the - supposedly superior - US way of doing things fails to achieve.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by requerdanos on Tuesday January 23 2018, @05:33PM (2 children)
Many years ago (the mid-1980s), I received a speeding ticket. I was recorded at 89 miles per hour because I slowed down before being clocked. It was not a good decision on my part, because it was not a good location for driving those speeds. I do not recommend repeating the experiment.
At that time, the area where I lived allowed a few different options for paying traffic tickets:
- in person at the courthouse
- by mail
- in person to the officer writing the ticket.
I chose the last, paying the officer in person. I handed him a $50 bill (tickets cost less then, huh?), he wrote me a receipt.
And the ticket and its four points never showed up on my driving record.
I genuinely, naively, wasn't trying to bribe the guy--I was just paying the ticket immediately as a way to budget that money (i.e., make sure I wasn't a little short when time to pay came around). But I was pretty disappointed when they discontinued that payment method not too long afterwards.
So maybe Mexico is onto something: Selective enforcement by financial considerational methods?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by khallow on Tuesday January 23 2018, @09:34PM (1 child)
In a world where the rules are so complex that you're always doing something wrong (even when they can't think of what you're doing wrong, they can always make shit up), there will be plenty of opportunities to exchange those pieces of paper. You just have to decide if that is the sort of world you want.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Wednesday January 24 2018, @12:45AM
Despite not minding my traffic ticket going away, I really do want an environment with carefully defined, reliable rules more than anything else, one rule of which allows for review and improvement/replacement of rules which prove to be damaging to society.
I know, we don't have an environment like that on any kind of decent scale.
(Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday January 23 2018, @09:44PM
Believe me, money works BEAUTIFULLY in the USA.🇺🇸 As a businessman and a very substantial donor to very important people -- Crooked Hillary was one of them -- when you give, they do WHATEVER the hell you want them to do. I know the system far better than anybody else, and I know the system is broken. I know it so well because I was on both sides of it. I was on the other side all my life and I've always made LARGE contributions. And frankly, I know the system better than anybody else, and I'm the only one that's going to be able to fix that system because that system is wrong.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday January 23 2018, @06:47PM (2 children)
...while silently permitting the same to persist here.
This thread must be a figment of my imagination.
(Score: 5, Funny) by shortscreen on Tuesday January 23 2018, @08:27PM (1 child)
Now that they've been called out on Soylent News, the cops will be forced to clean up their act.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Tuesday January 23 2018, @09:55PM
"clean up"... isn't that some sort of code word for the mafia? Yes I can see it happening...