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Citations for traffic violations fell by 94 percent, from 10,069 to 587, during that time frame.It's not a slowdown - it's a virtual work stoppage, reported the Post yesterday.
Summonses for low-level offenses like public drinking and urination also plunged 94 percent - from 4,831 to 300.
Even parking violations are way down, dropping by 92 percent, from 14,699 to 1,241.
Drug arrests by cops assigned to the NYPD's Organized Crime Control Bureau - which are part of the overall number - dropped by 84 percent, from 382 to 63.
[I was] writing a series on the titans of trash - about racketeering by the nation's two largest garbage haulers. A lawyer came to my office one day to convey a warning about my latest investigative reporting. "Jonathan, I hope I don't open up the pages of the Union Leader one day," he said, "to read that the editor of a certain weekly newspaper got into his car, turned over the ignition, and got blown sky high." "That shall not happen," I said. "How can you be so sure?" "Because I don't own a car."To some extent the specter of violent death hangs over us all, lurking at the edge of consciousness most of the time, perhaps brought into focus by a mass shooting in which victims remind us of our children or friends, or of ourselves. Or maybe we are shaken by a local story about domestic violence, a murder suicide, a drive by, or road rage turned lethal.
Comment: The Police State, can also be summed up by Chris Hedges here: The following are just a fraction of the articles you can read on SoTT related to this subject:
The path to tyranny: The Nazi Gestapo and the US police state
Police brutality is nothing new, it's just militarized