“Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani could make driving in the Big Apple hell on wheels.” – as if traffic isn’t already hellish in NYC and in every other major city on the planet.
“Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani could make driving in the Big Apple hell on wheels.” – as if traffic isn’t already hellish in NYC and in every other major city on the planet.
A guide to sirens
Only you can help keep people in your community safe. Block and slow cop cars whenever possible.
If you block the police car you can prevent the bad thing from happening
Lemmy gold 🏆
'Murica, where you’d rather let a crime happen than let a cop commit the crime.
Most theft in the US is wage theft. But cops aren’t on their way to arrest the real criminals
Slight correction, police usually also means something bad has happened. Usually an accident that’s already over and now needs processing, a robbery which you can only call after (most robbers don’t say "go ahead and call the police, I’m about to mug you), murder victim has been found, murder was witnessed, shots fired heard in the distance, etc. Most of the time they can only show up after, take a report, maybe do a little investigating, and maybe find the guy wherever he went off to.
Sometimes you can call before, like if someone is kicking in your door and it takes a few swings or someone is having a suicidal crisis and is working up the nerve or whatever, technically hitting a silent alarm for a bank robbery would be “is happening” but we’ll count it, but even then it still takes anywhere from 11min-30min for them to show up depending on where you are (last time I called it was over an hour in a city, after the event had happened,) and sometimes they don’t even come until the next day in the sticks I visit frequently.
Police aren’t actually that effective at *stopping" crime unless they just so happen to already be in the room when it happens (and that’s assuming they’re not the ones committing the crime themselves, which they also do more than anyone is comfortable with.)
Nope. Usually police are on their way to hurt someone who hasn’t done anything wrong.
Phone calls from rich white Karens who saw someone walking in their neighborhood gasp while black!
Stop watching TV.
Oh now I get it, woosh. I thought it was implying they actually show up to stop things on the first read.
But also not really, they mostly collect reports for insurance RE: car crashes and theft as I noted, but that doesn’t make as good of a news bulletin, so they don’t report the endless amounts of that instead focusing on the bleeding leading and outrage bait.
But nice snarky comment, sure showed me! That’ll show me for saying the police are ineffective at best by nature and sometimes the criminals themselves while being realistic, I meant to say every cop has a quota for how many black people to shoot before they can clock out for the day, that better?
Edit: Hold the fuck up, .nl? Your cops are supposedly fine wtf you talkin about? Are you misappropriating American problems for clout?! You doing ok bud?
My country in South America doesn’t have an instance. Anyone can join this instance, not just the Dutch…