Me and some friends where in Times square last night to see a Devo concert (remember them) and we had a 2 hour wait on line before the doors opened, so we thought we would get a beer and drink it while we waited on line, just small cans of beer, one each- a legal product bought legally, in a paper bag. And guess what happened? That’s right Mr. Officer gave us tickets. Mind you this was on 44th street, mere feet away from the area where a Muslim was allowed to stop his car - I say “stop” because parking is “strictly forbidden” - stop this car that was loaded with explosives, and flee after which cops completely ignored it until a guy selling tee-shirts wondered why smoke was coming out the windows and had to run down the block to get a mounted cop to check it who I heard took his time. But me drinking a 12 ounce can of Bud in a paper bag gets harassed. Like I said many times: NYC = North Korea but with food. The Dear Leader will bust your nuts for mundane crap, but the terrorists? The illegals? Any and all enemies of the USA? They get to do what the hell they want.
That's an echo of what Victor Hanson wrote about in California, where the authorities go after the law-abiding people for little crap while letting the illegals run rampant.
It’s only the little creatures that get caught in the web. The bigger ones break right through. But the civic overlords get to act like they’ve done something for the city by writing a ticket like that for you.