NYPD Work Stoppage: Arrest Rate Down 64%, Crime Rate Remains Unchanged. I Think They Just Proved

[TrollBuster9090]

That 64% of the NYPD is un-necessary.

Thanks, dickheads. You just showed de Blasio how to save New York City a whole s#!tload of money.

[Kalidurga]

1. Yep he can fire at least half of the cops.

Start with the ones that have multiple complaints and work down to the ones that have a complaint until they have only cops with clean records as far as how they interact with the public. Then start a zero tolerance policy on cops that use excessive violence even once.

[TrollBuster9090]

4. Excellent suggestion! nt

[ellenrr]

2. YEAH! drug arrest down, good - drugs should be legal,

parking tickets down - good, down with parking meters.

[TrollBuster9090]

5. In truth, I think Lynch is betting that the lack of parking tickets will hurt NYC the most.

Screw crime prevention. New York City probably gets half it's operating budget from traffic tickets.

However, if they're only arresting and processing half as many people, they'll save at least that much money on jail overhead.

[Renew Deal]

8. And the courts might catch up.

[ellenrr]

10. the drop in income will hurt the city, so what they should is

take all the off-shore unpaid tax money and give it to the city.

[TrollBuster9090]

12. Or, how about a 0.001% capital gains tax on all Wall Street transactions. After all...

Wall Street is in New York. (And no, they're not going to move the New York Stock Exchange just because de Blasio decided to take a few pennies out of their pirate's treasure chest. They're having too much fun rubbing the brass balls on the giant bull.)

[Depaysement]

11. Bad strategy - Parking tickets constitute slightly above 1% of NYC revenue

Revenue from parking tickets is about $600 million. Total City revenue is about $55 billion.

Revenue should exceed estimates this year anyway.

[TrollBuster9090]

13. They could use a 'conservative' solution, and just 'privatize' that part of their function.

Just give all the NYC tow truck drivers Ron Paul style 'letters of mark' to tow away any cars they find double parked, and then they can collect the impounding fee. No cops need be involved. That would allow them to lay off a whole lot of cops, and the ones that remain will no longer have to waste their talents slapping tickets onto windshields.

[Renew Deal]

6. Have you ever been to NY?

The parking meter tickets aren't the problem. It's the double parking that blocks traffic that is a problem. And all the other dangerous stuff people do.

[Renew Deal]

3. How is the crime rate calculated?

By arrests or reported crimes?

I thought the initial comment from Lynch was interesting about only ticketing and arresting only when necessary. That should already be the rule.

[TrollBuster9090]

7. Good point. Lynch just admitted that 64% of the arrests they make are un-necessary.

So much for George Kelly's Broken Windows Theory.

[Renew Deal]

9. I don't think a week during the holiday season proves much either way

But it might eventually prove that NYC isn't the same place it was when these policies started and isn't going back.