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Friday’s Headlines: Steve Levin Takes on the Placard Class Edition
Placard perps are on notice (you know, like the time before and the time before that). Plus all the other news.
August 14, 2020
Twitter Gives Reckless Drivers a Reprieve from Public Embarrassment
How's their driving? Who knows?!
August 12, 2020
BUSINESS AS USUAL: Mayor, NYPD Promised To Evict Cops from Harlem Bus Stop — But Nothing Has Changed
Is this really so difficult?
August 12, 2020
The NYPD’s (Non-Existent) Placard Crackdown — By the (Astonishingly Low) Numbers
From July 1, 2019 to July 1, 2020, the NYPD and the DOT issued just 2,444 placard abuse summonses — the equivalent of fewer than seven tickets a day across the entire city.
August 11, 2020
‘Vicious Cycle of Stupidity’ as Cops Clog Up Frederick Douglass Boulevard
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to .... be cops.
August 10, 2020
Mayor: Cops Who Speed in their Private Cars May Be Speeding ‘In the Line of Duty’
"A certain percentage of the time it's in the line of duty or people are rushing to a job," the mayor believes.
August 10, 2020
Feds Charge Queens Man For Torching DOT Speed Camera — Oh, and Supposedly Plotting Mass Killing
Elijah Song, a 27-year-old Flushing resident, is being held without bail.
August 3, 2020
Report: City Must Get NYPD Out of Street Enforcement — For Everyone’s Safety
“It has become abundantly clear that the NYPD’s approach to traffic safety is not working, especially for New Yorkers of color,” said Transportation Alternatives Deputy Director Marco Conner DiAquoi.
June 19, 2020
‘Progressive’ West Siders Again Call for MORE Policing in Central Park — With Support of Birder Chris Cooper
An Upper West Side community panel has once again called for more NYPD enforcement in Central Park — and this time, it had the support of a prominent victim of the specter of police violence.
June 16, 2020
BUSTED! ‘Eyewitness News’ Driver Breaks Law in ABC7-TV Truck
My nuisance-neighbor newsman uses company billboard to block hydrant, pollute air in the Bronx. So what does corporate say?
June 15, 2020
