Relief for drug dealers over 40?
steve, you said police protests “had nothing to do with the mayor” and cops are bullies. Unfortunately, the mayor was directly responsible for Eric Garner with his broken windows policy that was (pervertedly) supposed to counteract the loss of stop and frisk (a practice which he strongly opposed). The policy was not liked by police – but Bratton implemented it and the rest is history. Now another brilliant move by the mayor setting police policy by an amateur is upon us. ‘ I agree with you on the Pre-K, but for me it seems all he is good at doing thus far is is spending money. I don’t necessarily consider that skillful, as anyone can overspend. A politician that spends to gain popularity through social programs almost universally ends up putting his constituents’ government in heavy debt.
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thetinkerswagon | 9 years and 11 months ago
and now another thing. I just took a walk to the bank which is by a school and saw a woman in a NYC car with yellow flashing lights, a camera and some what I learned were radar things. I stopped to ask what the program was (I thought they were monitoring pedestrian/car traffic through the intersection as we have complained to DOT and the police about some of the recklessness directed at pedestrians). The first thing out of the woman’s mouth was “have you heard of the Mayor’s Vision Zero?” I told her I had and she told me that she was issuing automated camera speeding violations to speeders. who reading this has ever almost been injured by a speeder? I have lived here for 20 years and in the last year have almost been run over by three cars in the intersection by my house while walking my son to school by people failing to yield and driving recklessly. I have never almost been hit by a speeder whilst a pedestrian. I was hit by a car in 2000 by a man making a turn (failed to yield) and he was not speeding. I have attempted to call the mayor’s office about this, i have called DOT (they are studying one of the intersections), I have called the police and fought with them to take a report, on and on inc to the community board and the school principal. and this mayor worries about speeders. he is too worried about going after what will raise money (sound like Bloomberg and the parking tickets?) and too worried about not offending people or tackling the reckless drivers (which will cost money as it must be witnessed). the guy is trying to make his mark the wrong way. and some of what he sees as solutions strike me as odd; I work in all neighborhoods in this city and I cross the same intersections he does, is his head someplace that it should not be that he is not seeing the same things I am? when he does some of these things he strikes me as out of touch as some fat, cigar smoking guy sitting in a board room on a fortune 500 company.
pigthree | 9 years and 11 months ago
Universal pre-k is good in theory. Billy’s roll out was a disaster much like the ACA. Money going to little private daycare facilities that were not inspected with employee’s that were not properly vetted. Pre-k is one thing. Paid child care is another. Vision zero is a good idea. But all I have seen is the mayor vilifying drivers. The same drivers that provide massive amounts of revenue for NYC. I’m not including the parking ticket revenue in that massive figure. I am happy when I can go 25! Most days its 15 to 20 about town. Most drivers obey the laws. Easily more than pedestrians and cyclists. He has taken notable action against drivers. Lots of tax dollars on bus adds making all drivers seem negligent. When and what is he going to do to start enforcing laws against negligent pedestrians and cyclists? If I hit and kill a pedestrian or cyclists while following all traffic laws, why should I have to live with that pain? You would be surprised how often those types of accidents almost happen (not with me, in general)
pigthree | 9 years and 11 months ago
btw, that method of issuing speeding tickets sounds like an end around of what was approved by Albany that will eventually be challenged in court. Billy with another page out of the Barack play book.
thetinkerswagon | 9 years and 11 months ago
Pigthree: I felt he was vilifying the drivers as well – and I did not like it as I drive (and hate having to – it is for work) and am very aware that the pedestrians crossing when they shouldn’t are a big part of the problem. A cop once told me that when a pedestrian gets hit, it is usually the fault of the pedestrian. Now, more recently I have seen references being made in the press to the mayor’s pressure on the police to ticket pedestrians. I just want the guy to be fair and look at where the problems really come from.
thetinkerswagon | 9 years and 11 months ago
and when he was rolling the pre k out I remember thinking too bad we had to pay for ours. then I thought, “would I really have wanted to send someone I love to one of his pre k’s?” probably not. and someone can chime in here and say that we were lucky we could pay for it – but I had to work quite hard to be able to.