If you think NYC government is unresponsive, bureaucratic, inefficient and terrible, giving it a bank is the last thing you should want.

Alternate law enforcement would have to be a part of it for sure. You'd have to start with a separately run and managed force that grows over time.

We need to bust the police union. Anyone on the force should be able to be fired for any reason whatsoever. And none of this administrative leave bullshit. Oh, you're not doing your job? Bye, go find work in Elizabeth or Cleveland.

It's sooooooo fucking stupid that taxpayers are constantly on the hook for police misconduct yet nobody on the force ever pays a price for it.

When you hate society, you think anything that shakes up society is a step forward. Turns out it was a step backward in a lot of ways, but at least more people now understand that teachers unions do not give a shit about your kid.

What a useless attempt to get people angry

You are really going hard in defense of the city's obvious, well-documented, problems with bureaucracy.

It's very simple. NYC has more barriers than any of the other places this dude did 180 toilet builds. 5 toilets is peanuts, but I assure you, this same stupidity and these same barriers exist when we want to do such things as extend the 2nd Ave line and such.

> This anecdote doesn't mean anything unless they specify that the agency managing and buying the Loos made the call.

This "anecdote" - some would call it an interview - shows that the city is exceedingly dumb.

It really makes no sense and shows you exactly the kind of people Bragg's got making decisions on this stuff.

Did you read the article? Bathrooms aside, it's about how the city, as usual, was bureaucratic, incompetent, and slow.

> And strict New York City building code restrictions on prefabricated construction have dragged out getting potties to parks, a Parks spokesperson acknowledged. A sales manager for Portland Loo’s manufacturer, Madden Fabrication, told THE CITY that securing approval in New York was more difficult than in any other location the company has worked in.

> “I built 180 of these, from Portland to Alaska to Miami, and I’ve never had this certification problem,” Evan Madden told THE CITY. “New York City has been the most difficult to have a permit approved for.”

He goes on:

> Madden, the loo fabricator, told THE CITY he didn’t hear a peep from New York City officials until February 2022, when one of them angrily called and asked why the firm wasn’t providing the potties.

> The short answer: Nobody had ordered them.

Always has been. Back to the Wilson days.

Not wrong.

You either know or have paid off the right people in NYC to get a good deal as a business, and if you haven't, there's basically no reason to be here if you're a large multinational.

> When asked why he was the best person to lead a public safety briefing and how his role differed from Sewell's, the first woman to head the department, Banks said, “that’s not a question.”

> “I won’t answer that particular question. I'm in this role because the person who was elected mayor has the authority to appoint a deputy mayor of public safety,” Banks said. “And he believed that I should be the person in this particular role. And that's why I’m in that role. End of story, bottom line.”

Boy it sure would be nice to have a city council that would bother to hold hearings on this kind of OBVIOUS grift, rather than spend its time on boutique social programs and pointless wedge issues

I think I asked this before, where can I read the much-discussed "430 technical questions" the FHWA posed to the MTA?

Assuming it's going to be like 3 or 4 obese psychos waddling around in khakis, counter protests would just signal boost these morons.

> “As with the pedestrian stops during the height of stop and frisk, we are now seeing numbers where it’s quite clear that Black and Latino drivers are being singled out for the most aggressive police activity,” said Christopher Dunn, the NYCLU's legal director. “That’s a source of a lot of concern.”

Oh my god people, just keep your license and registration up to date and obey the officer instead of arguing... whether the cop is right or wrong, you will NEVER WIN on the street, your place to fight is in court.

NeW YOrK dAIlY NEws iS TraSH

> The system is designed to stifle worker organizing

The system based on civil liberties where if someone wants to work, they can choose to, and if they don't, they are also free to choose that.

Any worker who feels they get a bad deal working for Uber or Lyft is welcome to try out whatever new industry their heart desires.

The last time they tried a strike it didn't even impact service much at all. Clearly the workers want to make money and not strike.

Oh really, you think a bunch of guys aren't going to take advantage of surge rates to make a ton of money or service slows down? Lol

> You can identify someone, you can claim against their insurance for damage or injury.

The first thing wrong with this is that fake and obscured plates are at epidemic levels in the city. I could walk down the block and find 5 right now before I got to the nearest bodega. These guys could mow down pre-schoolers at a crosswalk and get away with it if they kept going.

The second thing is that insurance is motivated at meth-head levels of single minded focus to make the problem go away as soon as possible and as cheaply as possible, and will almost NEVER go beyond the police report in assigning blame or forcing compensation. So you're dependent in your payout, on whatever bored cops show up that day, and that's ONLY IF the vehicle aggressor sticks around.

The clear and specific way to solve the battery issue is to ban non-UL batteries, and have random checkpoints at which all EVs are inspected and impounded if found to have fakes.

Great I got to take a bus ride or walk 30 min then

> Lots of value extracted form drivers and their cars.

...who all chose voluntarily to drive 🙄

What are the top 5

> with the Dem machine still choosing Old White Men as their candidates

It's crazy how casually racist people are and everyone nods along like, yeah, he's got a point

Who

Imagine using reddit from a phone