14 thoughts on “Parking your squad car in the accessibility ramp isn’t Courteous, Professional, or Respectful.”

  4. Raymond Blum in the late nineties I enjoyed wearing NYPD shirts ironically because they were under UN investigation for human rights abuses. Then after 9/11 we had to pretend they were all heroes. Thankfully they’ve shown their true colors again and it’s okay to point out their excessive force again.

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  5. Gus Hartmann I’m more comfortable believing that they’re a mix of good folks and bad folks like any other organisation. But this may be a showing-my-privilege thing.

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  6. Tanya Reilly true, and I feel that way about SPD too, despite the federal consent decree.

    The problem is you don’t know if you get a bad apple.

    One of the two times I’ve been stopped, the cop tried to write it up as “gun involved” because my range bag – unloaded guns in a locked case- were in the trunk. I ended up in the hospital because I “had a weapon”.

    Most cops are fine. But I’m an upper middle class white man and I got a concussion for having unloaded guns in a locked case in the trunk.

    So I’m not inclined to give any cop the benefit of the doubt.

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  7. +Tanya Reilly sure, cept unlike the private Lexus and jeep (kidding about undercover, that’s just the professional courtesy parking style), any one of the good cops could have moved the patrol car.

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  9. Gus Hartmann 
    My initial impression (relatively short version): In 1982 I was, with many others, chased off of a wooden platform in Washington Square park where I was, ironically, doing my Calculus homework.  After several minutes of verbal, profane abuse by 2 officers, I walked away and said “F-ing pig” – several minutes later I had a ticket for disorderly conduct, some cracked ribs and a damaged wrist – shattered by a professionally applied combination of cuffs and nightsticks.

    Over the years I have been mugged a few times, and once knifed and not one time did the NYPD actually follow up in any meaningful way:  once they classified the incident as “property loss” when I had been bleeding from my mouth (of broken teeth) and nose all over the station house desk: this was to keep their “fewer violent crimes” statistics looking good.

    Recently I had an iPhone stolen and Officer Crispo at the 10th Pct would not even take the report, which if nothing else would allow me to get the carriers to block my phone.

    Tanya Reilly 
    The kind of person who gets drawn into that line of work is usually a thug.  The few good people that are mixed in are either converted or alienated and then [self] removed.

    That leaves us with stupid useless thugs.
    With guns and badges.

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  11. Gus Hartmann Thanks but I viewed this as my early awakening to what’s really going on and what to expect from them.  If you’re not one of the people pulling their strings, you’re one of the people that they push their own inner problems down on to.  At least they didn’t put me in a chokehold and kill me as they did to Mr Garner last week.  I doubt that I would have survived being choked and piled on by several “peace officers” either.

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  12. Raymond Blum our own Seattle police are under Federal indictment for excessive violence.

    Contrary to my instincts, we have to break the union. They defend a culture of violence.

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