[robowombat]

‘With the NY legal system overwhelmed and years behind in hearing serious cases, why was he being arrested anyway? What is the fine for selling 1 cigarette (a $0.65 item in NY)? Isn’t that citation material? Unless they were looking to harass him, shouldn’t they just have ticketed him for such a minor offense and been on their way?’

Interesting questions. It appears that Hizzoner DeBlasio has designated ‘lost revenue’ from bootleg tobacco sales as at the top of the list for criminal activities the NYPD is supposed to go after. Hizzoner has become particularly incensed at the losey salesmen he encounters almost everywhere in Gotham and the other boroughs. He takes it as a personal affront and has made PC Bratton just how unhappy he is about and how he considers such open sales evidence that the NYPD is derelict in enforcing the law and just maybe contemptuous of the Dear and Glorious Leader. So NYPD operations at precinct level are feeling the heat to show lots of pro-activity and get those arrest stats up for the crime of losey selling.

[dragnet2]

Your post is right out of....

Funny stuff.

Ya don't want to have your legs broken or be found in the river...Just pay up and comply, then ya get to go home to the little wife. Capisce?

[Mears]

Bratton isn’t the an he used to be-—————Wilhelm is walking all over him.

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