Spit facts homie

We play a lot of different tricks at all levels to try and get around the fact that our system is woefully underfunded.

We don't pay social services, so we need more criminal services, but we also don't pay for enough staffing for judges, lawyers, prosecutors, so we wind up with a patchwork of suck at every level.

NYPD did this, (kettling, imprisonment in vans with no bathroom breaks, and more I can’t remember), in 2004 during the Republican National Convention. They were sued and eventually lost. Lots of tax payer money has been lost over the years to law suits due to NYPD heavy handedness, politics, escalation tactics. Does anyone remember the 2008 body slamming that briefly hit the mainstream news and then vanished?

(2014) https://www.nyclu.org/en/press-releases/victory-unlawful-mass-arrest-during-2004-rnc-largest-protest-settlement-history

(2018) https://gothamist.com/news/10-years-ago-a-cop-bodyslammed-a-cyclist-during-critical-mass-ride

(2008) https://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/17/youtube.cyclist.cop/index.html

Care to expand? I haven’t been up there in years.

Dead ass cant believe American Auto called us out about dead ass b.

I’m proud that my sons high school is the most diverse in the city and almost perfectly matches the demographics of the student population. My neighborhood is not diverse though (UWS). It’s honestly uncomfortable that all the nannies and laborers are minorities and very few of the residents are. Every morning I come downstairs and there is a group of nannies waiting to go up and we only have white and a couple of Asians as residents. My son’s public elementary school was less diverse than my daughter’s private elementary school since they could choose their students. The only diversity in the public school was the children of supers who lived in their workplaces and a couple of adopted kids.

Someone actually had to study this?

most diverse words living together in same sentence.

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washington heights is awesome but it feels like it's on the cusp of ruin.

When was Flatbush more diverse? My mom grew up there as it was white flighting, so it was diverse for a bit but that didn't last too long.

We’re diverse because there’s no real border between ethnic enclaves lmao

Crazy

well yeah theyre old white people from glendale and maspeth, would you expect them not to be racist lmao

Also random thought: it’s weird when people move here and are scared of black & brown people. That’s like going to the movies and being scared of the seats.

Subpar analogy, but at least if you’re going to check out the movie off a good trailer, at least acknowledge the cast of the movie and the seats that has made it comfortable for you to enjoy the film aka frolic around the city.

I welcome everyone. Just don’t bring that prejudice shit with you fam.

All love.

>no duh! It’s called gentrification. Now how many of those new neighbors speak to the people in the community? Won’t even make eye contact with you…

You sound just like the racist neighbors I had that complained about my immigrant parents coming to their neighborhood.

The white population has declined every decade, including this last one. A few neighborhoods have seen some more white people moving in (which, given all the complaints about white flight and our supposed positive approach to desegration, shouldn't be a bad thing) and a bunch of neighborhoods have seen the white population decrease (and people of other races move in). That's normal.

It's not white gentrifiers that are driving black New Yorkers out. It's Hispanics ones.

Born here and still in Brooklyn and even in its diversity It’s segregated to me. It’s so weird to walk the streets of Flatbush and not feel what I felt as a kid.

I mean as we grow things change, our perspectives change as well, but I really do miss the sense of diversity when it meant bartering recipes, taking in culture and looking out for your fellow foreigner who came here with the intent for more.

It’s one thing to be diverse and just that, but to be immersed in diversity is the difference.

The heart’s been transplanted.

It’s different now, I get it tho.

Any videos?

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God, just put all the virulently anti-cop people on a boat with all the virulently anti-protestor people and push it out to sea.

My personal experiences at a dozen different protests involved watching cops being goaded and belittled by protestors and not responding. I only saw professional behavior the entire time in Lower Manhattan. The protestors were sometimes aggressive, but I never saw anyone break the law on either side. I've seen a few videos of NYPD abuse, but it didn't seem to be the norm at various protests by any stretch of the imagination.

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I went to about a dozen protests in Lower Manhattan, half of them after dark, and saw largely peaceful protestors as well as professional cops. I saw protestors behaving aggressively, provocatively, maliciously, but ultimately legally, and I saw cops that didn't react and allowed the protestors to voice their opinions... loudly. Protestors also successfully occupied the northeast corner of the block around City Hall for over a month.

I think this represents the vast majority of the protester and police interactions during that time period, as much as each extreme refuses to believe it.

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