The Adventures in Policing Thread Part II

Apparently Jordan Neely just spontaneously died because the guy that had him in a choke Daniel Penny has been found not guilty of negligent homicide and a hung jury on his manslaughter charge.

He will be this generations Bernard Goetz.

 

Echoes of Trayvon Martin.

 

Except there was literally no threat.

Guy got killed for being annoying.

 

You may have heard that the FBI recently warned the public to use secure messaging: https://www.npr.org/2024/12/17/nx-s...urity-fbi-chinese-hackers-security-encryption

This has actually been an issue since 2022 or earlier:
China Is Still Busy Hacking Into Carrier Networks to Spy on ...

The FBI has only recently started advising about this crisis: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/13/china-hackers-wiretap-data-telcos-00189445

HOWEVER!!! The source of this ongoing problem is the overreach purposefully included in the design of how modern wiretaps work. https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecuri...s-work-after-chinese-hack-experts-say/400220/

The short of it is that the FBI wanted a backdoor that was not easily tracked and could be started without the need of a warrant or any of that pesky paperwork including constitutional rights. Who would have guessed it would be the perfect back door?

 

I wont post it so y'all can look for it online if you'd like. But a Guatemalan migrant set a sleeping woman on fire on the F train then sat & watched on the platform as she burned. As bad as that was, a cop walks by the open train door and ignores the poor lady. The perp fled but was later apprehended.

This goes with the chief of dept & Friend of Adams "resigning" this week for trading sex with an underling for overtime for her. She made $400K last year. Just a total shitshow.

 

Yep.

Except he didn't create the threat by stalking the guy until he decided to defend his right to be where he was

 

That is some top quality head. I just saw the memes from my friends the other day to find out about this.

 

More on this, including some poorly timed posts by the governor.

 

This voice to text thing is gonna bite you in the ass one day

 

No, I mean to be allowed 200k in overtime, she must have been giving some top quality head.

It is just as direct and misogynistic as I typed the first time.

 

What bothers me about this is this is going to make headlines and people are going to sell New York City's unsafe even though these kinds of incidents have become more rare but school shootings and mass shootings and Generals are just one off and we should never look to gun control.

 

No problem. I didn't realize.

 

I lived NYC from 1997 until 2017 and I've been back many times since. It always seemed pretty safe to me. There were no go areas in the 1990s but very few these days. I can't remember ever feeling that I was in danger, other than when I first arrived and believed the hype. If you go to NYC expecting it to be dangerous you'll see things that will reinforce your belief but if you live there and someone gives you a hard time you just stand up for yourself and they normally back off. Maybe I'm street smart.

Living in London between 1986 and 1995 things felt a lot more dangerous. But then there were a lot more drunks.

I stayed in downtown Vegas last year and my hotel was a couple of blocks away from the tourist area. That was a scary couple of blocks.

 

As a Latin American I am puzzled about this belief that any public space is inherently safe, ever. My kids seem to push back on this idea but I then start listing off the number of things that could happen and they start seeing the wisdom of a little bit of caution.

 

I wouldn't let kids under 15 wander around NYC alone.

There was a big fuss a few years ago when a newspaper reported that some girl was travelling to private school on the subway unaccompanied. The bridge and tunnel people were shocked, New Yorkers were like "meh".

At 13 (I looked about 10) my Dad put me on a train from Newcastle to Cambrai. That was a 3 train ride to London, which I'd never visited, the tube to Victoria Station, a train from Victoria Station to Folkestone, a ferry from Folkestone to Dunkirk, where I had to find a train to Lille (not easy), then change for Cambrai. I slept through Lille and had to find my way back, trying to get help in French but still arrived in time for my hosts to pick me up.

Maybe that's why I'm a not intimated in strange places.

 

Yeah...me too. I've been a member of Big Soccer coming on 20 yrs.

 

Not police, but security vs. shoplifting (allegedly)

Shoplifter punches security guard in the face and receives a quick and helpful education:

pic.twitter.com/pTX8ILaEh6

— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) December 23, 2024

 

Younger ones use school busses.

Older ones tend to travel in groups, usually with some older kids.

You don't see many kids traveling alone.

 

I mean... to be fair...

 

If you're a geordie, modern day Gaza probably looks like a piece of cake mate

Mind you, I was born in Peckham and it's about the same.

 

I used to walk to school from the age of about 9 in London. Parents were at work. How else was I expected to get there.

Actually, thinking about it I used to walk to school at age 6 or 7 but there were a few of us so 'safety in numbers', I guess.

 

Yeah, I keep forgetting you're a noob.

 

True but kids in 7th grade start taking the bus

 

I was 8. Walked a mile and a half to school alone including short cuts through wooded areas.