Comments on: The New York City Mob

By: markm

markm — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:59:48 +0000

Where Dave’s comment isn’t that accurate: you actually get rid of “bad apples”.

By: bob lane

bob lane — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:23:51 +0000

“Bad” cops break the law.

“Good” cops harass anyone who notices that “bad” cops break the law, thereby deterring others from complaining about “bad” cops.

It is almost as if the difference between “good” cops and “bad” cops is strictly rhetorical.

By: tarran

tarran — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:53:15 +0000

Those of you who thought Dave was serious should either:
1) Rent the director’s cut of “Blade Runner”
2) Read Philip K Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”

You will then recognize the reference.

By: Andrew Williams

Andrew Williams — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:08:37 +0000

Bad cops
Bad cops
Whatcha gonna do
Whatcha gonna do
When they’re shootin’ at you

By: Dave Krueger

Dave Krueger — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:53:37 +0000

Frank, Curoius, and Mike L.

Sorry, guys. I thought “little people” comment was far enough out of bounds to ensure the first paragraph would be recognized as a spoof. Zeb probably hit the nail on the head. It was probably too close to reality to be recognized as sarcasm by everyone who reads it.

By: Windypundit

Windypundit — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:52:50 +0000

Draughn’s Rule of Internet Sarcasm:

No matter how obviously sarcastic or ironic your post seems to you, someone somewhere will have witnessed that very thing stated in all sincerity and with great earnestness…and that person will flame you for it.

By: Zeb

Zeb — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:50:03 +0000

Dave’s sarcasm tends to come uncomfortably close to what too many actually say seriously. Still, I think that the parody in the first paragraph should have been obvious.

By: Michael Chaney

Michael Chaney — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:33:00 +0000

Guys, Dave in #1 is using *sarcasm*. The fact that you didn’t recognize that is, in and of itself, scary.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:30:19 +0000

#10, #11, #14 and #15:

Time to bring the sarcasm detector to the shop. It is definitely not working.

I actually got a little chuckle out of that before the complete truth of that parody sank in.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:26:32 +0000

Lawsuit, hell. There should be criminal charges against every slimeball gangster in blue that wrote a ticket there. This is obvious harassment, intimidation, abuse of power and suppression of commerce.

And Radley, I disagree with your characterization of NYPD as being the New York City Mob. They aren’t even that honorable — definitely not as honorable as the Sopranos. They are a street gang. A drug-running, gun-selling (they can’t account for 30% of the guns in evidence) street gang with legal protections.

Anyone who isn’t afraid of the police these days are either one with the street gang or clinically insane.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:17:52 +0000

“Dave Krueger” is likely from some other Gestapo-wannabe organization that is just as bad as NYPD.

The “little people” comment (which police use instead of ‘nigger’ ‘spic’ ‘chink’ ‘slanteye’ ‘doper’ etc) is telling. The general attitude of ‘law enforcement’ is that you either have a badge, or are one of the people that authorizes budget and paychecks, or you are nothing.

They are samauri, and our sole purpose is to provide necks to test out the sharpness of their katanas.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:07:28 +0000

Those of us regulars here know Dave’s sarcasm.

By: HtownGuy

HtownGuy — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:02:09 +0000

Dave Krueger: If you were trying to convince me of something in your first paragraph, it would have been best to leave the last sentence off your post. Calling me a “little person” and saying that I have “a thick skull” does very little to convince me of the strength of your arguments. In fact, it tends to be counter-productive.

Hey MikeL (#11) and Curious (#10), Dave Krueger was sarcastically speaking from the cops’ perspective while pointing out how they respond publicly (if there’s video, then they are a few bad apples. If there is not video then they followed procedure.)

By: MikeL

MikeL — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:52:47 +0000

Dave Krueger: If you were trying to convince me of something in your first paragraph, it would have been best to leave the last sentence off your post. Calling me a “little person” and saying that I have “a thick skull” does very little to convince me of the strength of your arguments. In fact, it tends to be counter-productive.

By: Curious

Curious — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:48:08 +0000

DK wrote:

“You little people need to get that through your thick skulls.”

Care to explain why the previous posters are “little people” and clarify who are the big people?

By: MikeT

MikeT — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:19:43 +0000

And by that I mean insurance that your business won’t be disrupted by law enforcement…

By: MikeT

MikeT — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:19:20 +0000

The mafia can now start selling protection packages for local businesses…

By: Tokin42

Tokin42 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:01:14 +0000

Incredible. Too bad the guy is selling his bar instead of filing a lawsuit, but I can see his point.

By: Gregory Peckpry

Gregory Peckpry — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:19:47 +0000

NYPD are the most power hungry force in the nation. They are the model for our new police state. They can search your bags without probable cause, shut down whole city blocks and ID everyone within. I was stopped on my way out at the Holland tunnel by them and held up for an hour while they checked out my ID. As I watched them arrest people for outstanding tickets and whatever else they could dig up. After asking why i was being checked out and what I had done. The officer just played stupid. Then they let me go.

By: Jozef

Jozef — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:11:07 +0000

I was wondering about that "modified duty", too. But given that another NYC cop had to post bail after issuing fake traffic tickets, "modified duty" sounds a little tame.