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creativepositioning t1_jda3tm4 wrote

Those cases probably just involve facts that the police don't want to come out through discovery - like a video showing the accuser is a liar while simultaneously being a record of incredibly poor behavior on the part of the officer. Otherwise I don't buy the settlements.

I was referring to the people here saying the city should litigate the worst of these cases, as if that'd be cheaper than settling them. In that sense, we probably don't disagree. My point was more that, if the city had to litigate a particularly high profile/risk case, it'd probably not be significantly more expensive for the city as compared to a normal party in a litigation.

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creativepositioning t1_jd8q7eq wrote

The judges are salaried, the staff are salaried, they show up every day regardless of whether its a criminal or civil trial. I'm aware the system costs money. However, you are making an unfounded assumption that actually litigating some cases would result in any meaningful differences in expenditures by the city, when it's likely NOT the case.

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creativepositioning t1_j8xv3nj wrote

>Of course they are reported. Every vehicular injury and death is reported because they end up in police reports. If delivery guys were killing people we'd have known by now. Be serious.

No they don't. I was literally hit by a car and the cops came and didn't do anything and kept it out of the statistics. You are naive.

>If delivery guys were killing people we'd have known by now

What the fuck are you talking about? No one is saying delivery guys are killing people. I'm saying they get into crashes all the time and none of its reported, to the cops, to insurance...

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creativepositioning t1_j8xlfyz wrote

Why? Because the riders have questionable citizenship statuses, don't want to deal with the liability, aren't going to wait around for cops, etc, etc. Honestly, hard to take you seriously if you are actually arguing this.

>And I can't imagine why they would be underreported if someone has damages that are more than an insurance deductible.

The guy delivering your chinese food isn't make a claim on insurance for any damages because a) they aren't waiting for a police report, b) they don't have insurance that covers them biking. Honestly - what the fuck are you talking about?

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creativepositioning t1_iv8qmok wrote

They'd rather argue about whether or not the Times is biased because of their education reporting, and ignore the entire point of the article, which is that the NYTimes continues to facially misrepresent the riots and the roles Jews played in them.

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creativepositioning t1_iv8pyar wrote

Bernstein is an insidious moron and a joke in the legal community and I promise you that has nothing to do with whatever he's saying about the Times. You probably didn't realize this, being a Bernstein fan, but it's clear the Times recognizes Jews as a racial category. The point was they don't recognize Hasidim.

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creativepositioning t1_iv8pn2y wrote

You kinda skip over everything he said about their reporting of the riot...

I'm not a hasidic jew, but I certainly see the point he's making about the language the Times used and their characterization of the riot. Did you know that the Times tried to cover up the holocaust?

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