Captaintripps

Captaintripps t1_j6hxe0c wrote

I agree that the process looks like a farce, but the community councils themselves are a farce. If community boards are unelected, undemocratic, unaccountable, and unrepresentative of the community, then community councils are an even worse example of the same things.

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Captaintripps t1_j5216m7 wrote

The NYPD absolutely does not give a single iota of a fuck about dangerous drivers. The change would start at the top, but the mayor is a former cop, his DoT has no desire to take over traffic enforcement and fight the NYPD on that (even though they are legally allowed to do so), nor are they approaching traffic safety design in any holisic way, and the council as a group won't touch the NYPD budget at all.

So you're kind of stuck filing 311 complaints or dragging your ass to a "Build the Block" meeting, where some bored sergeant will almost, but never quite give enough of a fuck to help the situation.

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