Gothamist: An Unexpected Visit to Brooklyn Central Booking

wredlich

Sun, 18 May 2008 14:18:37 -0500

Responding to chuzzlewit, you should go to the appropriate Traffic Violations Bureau. Get more information on, for example, Manhattan North Traffic Court. The phone number on that page should work for any TVB office in NYC.

johnieBK

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:39:42 -0500

The blog says that the cop was willing to let her go for jumping the turnstile, he used his discretion and felt like her excuse was a good one. The only reason she was arrested was because she had an oustanding arrest warrant.

TKaisen

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:14:27 -0500

What I don't understand is how this lady....and the article as well....is acting as though jumping a turnstyle is a small offense. I would say that stealing $2 is, in fact, a small offense. I'm assuming it was made a huge one in Rudy's burning desire to make everyone a criminal so they'd be in the system. I keep an emergency Metrocard in my wallet for when this stuff happens... but then, I'm not an over-entitled ass.

johnieBK

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:13:24 -0500

"Ticket quota trap," I guess if a cop witnesses a murder its an "arrest quota trap."

johnieBK

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:11:37 -0500

So to all the people who think that you shouldn't get locked up with an outstanding warrent, WAKE UP. Should only black people (and other minorities) get arrested for this?? Just because you went to college, you might be upper/middle class and have a fancy blog you don't deserve to go to jail with an outstanding warrant?? Jumping the turnstile is not a crime?? You really are some pretentious scumbags. As someone else mentioned you do the crime you do the time and with this experience will sure as shit will respect that criminal court summonse and not miss your court date. To anyone else who thinks you deserve something better in a holding cell, this is NYC there are crack heads, rapists, murders etc. in jail. You're not in Kansas anymore, welcome to New York. (Man I love that line and it never gets old!!!!)

Big Al72

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:53:34 -0500

Chuzzlewit- call 311

JacqueMehoff

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:55:52 -0500

I saw an undercover cop catch a few riders who couldn't wait their turn behind the turnstiles and went through the emergency gate as riders were exiting. Three people got caught. was a ticket worth not waiting a few secs for the guy ahead of you? guess it was. now you're in the system.

zstone

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:38:48 -0500

Actually, hopping a turnstyle is very much a "ticket offense." I'm sure there are plenty of us who have received them. There is no logical reason to lock a person up for such a thing, even with the outstanding warrant, given the nature of the previous crime and that it will cost so much more than the 60 dollar ticket to hold her overnight. I'm not surprised about the conditions, however.

JacqueMehoff

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:02:15 -0500

and they wonder why........

petemac

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:47:57 -0500

Its a FUCKING $2.00 offense! Total waste of taxpayers money!

matty

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:41:15 -0500

maybe self-entitled white people should get to sit in a starbucks while they're waiting for their cour t dates

liulide

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:21:31 -0500

buried for "rich kids prance around smith street"... oh shit, where am i?

drewo

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:12:05 -0500

The accomodations included throwing up heroin addicts, no water, loud music played by the guards, occasional bologna sandwiches tossed into the cells, mice...and so much more. The lawyer of this particular woman commented that the "facility was worse than the men's Tombs in Manhattan Actually sounds very much like the one night I spent in the Tombs some years ago. I found it quite an interesting experience - but one never to be repeated!

Novanglus

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:12:05 -0500

What I don't understand is how this lady....and the article as well....is acting as though jumping a turnstyle is a small offense. With her previous unpaid ticket or not, hopping a turnstyle alone is an arrest-able offense and is treated like shoplifting. She's not a victim. I don't know what she expected. It's also ridiculous to imply that it was "a ticket quota trap." Again, hopping a turnstyle is not a ticket offense, idiot.

RatherBe

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:46:22 -0500

what? you mean holding facilities aren't very nice? get over it princess. i guess she shouldn't have been a dumbass and it wouldnt have happened. its not hard to be a law abiding citizen.

zodak

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:31:49 -0500

Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time - Yeah, don’t do it. And keep your eye on the sparrow.

chuzzlewit

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:24:40 -0500

ay dios mio, my blood runs cold when I read these. I missed my court date for bike on the (empty) sidewalk, I'm too pretty to go to jail, and am finding it difficult to get the matter settled - anybody know the direct route to settling a missed (I'm assuming "guilty in absentia") traffic court thingy?