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creativepositioning t1_jda3tm4 wrote
Reply to comment by Crimsonwolf1445 in As New York Pays Out Millions In Police Misconduct Settlements, Lawmakers Ask Why They Keep Happening by brooklynlad
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.
creativepositioning t1_jd9wvle wrote
Reply to comment by Crimsonwolf1445 in As New York Pays Out Millions In Police Misconduct Settlements, Lawmakers Ask Why They Keep Happening by brooklynlad
How many do you think people are asking the city to litigate here? it was clearly quite a few, no need to be this obtuse.
creativepositioning t1_jd8q7eq wrote
Reply to comment by Crimsonwolf1445 in As New York Pays Out Millions In Police Misconduct Settlements, Lawmakers Ask Why They Keep Happening by brooklynlad
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.
creativepositioning t1_jd8eurw wrote
Reply to comment by Crimsonwolf1445 in As New York Pays Out Millions In Police Misconduct Settlements, Lawmakers Ask Why They Keep Happening by brooklynlad
Lol how much do you think those are? They are defendants, they aren't paying filing fees.
creativepositioning t1_jd67ae6 wrote
Reply to comment by SakanaToDoubutsu in As New York Pays Out Millions In Police Misconduct Settlements, Lawmakers Ask Why They Keep Happening by brooklynlad
The city has its own law department. They get paid a salary, regardless of whether or not the city settles.
creativepositioning t1_jd4e5h9 wrote
Reply to comment by xxl_gal in "Significant increase" in threats online ahead of possible Trump indictment by BigAssQuanta
Damn almost like the attempt to overthrow the gov't on a theory of overturning the election results and installing Trump as the (unelected) president would be exactly what you are talking about, but what the fuck do I know?
creativepositioning t1_jbq4yc4 wrote
Reply to comment by Active-Knee1357 in Cost of 2nd Avenue Subway extension to East Harlem balloons to $7.7B by Grass8989
>I had this same conversation with some MTA person and I couldn't get an answer lol
Do you ask McDonald's employees why corporate does something?
creativepositioning t1_jabo0l1 wrote
NY Dems really fucked up this past congressional race
creativepositioning t1_j8yc25q wrote
Reply to comment by olli_bombastico in Controversy over neighborhood hubs for food delivery workers in Manhattan by Shreddersaurusrex
Yeah, we shouldn't allow Seamless and Door Dash to treat their workers and categorize them this way...
creativepositioning t1_j8xy1z2 wrote
Reply to comment by SolitaryMarmot in Controversy over neighborhood hubs for food delivery workers in Manhattan by Shreddersaurusrex
You seem to have confused me with someone else
creativepositioning t1_j8xxvvt wrote
Reply to comment by mowotlarx in Controversy over neighborhood hubs for food delivery workers in Manhattan by Shreddersaurusrex
You are on some insane strawman about people getting killed, as opposed to the tons of crashes that happen and go unreported all the time, which is what I'm talking about.
creativepositioning t1_j8xv3nj wrote
Reply to comment by mowotlarx in Controversy over neighborhood hubs for food delivery workers in Manhattan by Shreddersaurusrex
>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...
creativepositioning t1_j8xlfyz wrote
Reply to comment by SolitaryMarmot in Controversy over neighborhood hubs for food delivery workers in Manhattan by Shreddersaurusrex
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?
creativepositioning t1_j8xc7yn wrote
Reply to comment by olli_bombastico in Controversy over neighborhood hubs for food delivery workers in Manhattan by Shreddersaurusrex
Yet the customers already pay and the riders get no support...
creativepositioning t1_j8xai80 wrote
Reply to comment by Filmatic113 in Controversy over neighborhood hubs for food delivery workers in Manhattan by Shreddersaurusrex
Fuck door dash and fuck you!
creativepositioning t1_j8xaf9i wrote
Reply to comment by SolitaryMarmot in Controversy over neighborhood hubs for food delivery workers in Manhattan by Shreddersaurusrex
Do you think most crashes or incidents by delivery guys get reported? I'd think any delivery person on delivery person incident would not be reported.
creativepositioning t1_j8x94d3 wrote
Reply to comment by olli_bombastico in Controversy over neighborhood hubs for food delivery workers in Manhattan by Shreddersaurusrex
The customers already do... if you order on seamless or door dash, it's something like 10-15% fee on top of a delivery fee, on top of the tip.
creativepositioning t1_j7lskf0 wrote
Reply to The Mayor Says He’s Cracking Down on Unlicensed Weed Sales. His Task Force Says Otherwise. by drpvn
So much for marijuana decriminalization
creativepositioning t1_iv8qmok wrote
Reply to comment by arrogant_ambassador in ‘Whitewashing a Pogrom’: Jews Assail New York Times for New Failure in Crown Heights Riot Recap by arrogant_ambassador
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.
creativepositioning t1_iv8pyar wrote
Reply to comment by Obstinate_Turnip in ‘Whitewashing a Pogrom’: Jews Assail New York Times for New Failure in Crown Heights Riot Recap by arrogant_ambassador
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.
creativepositioning t1_iv8pn2y wrote
Reply to comment by thisismynewacct in ‘Whitewashing a Pogrom’: Jews Assail New York Times for New Failure in Crown Heights Riot Recap by arrogant_ambassador
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?
creativepositioning t1_jdxaz1z wrote
Reply to comment by ctindel in DA Alvin Bragg’s staffer hangs up on ‘bulls–t’ congressional phone call by Gaytaino
Who is upvoting this dumbass, ignorant shit?