its only in blog world that spelling amtrak or amtrack is important.

is it really important, naming the agencies mean nothing, the most important agency the NYPD had NO juridiction or business riding to trains to Yonkers.

thats why you never see Yonkers cops in nyc, unless of course they come up with an overtime scheme in the name of anti-terrorism.

i knew when i wrote that someone would attack it,

its oversimplified for the ease of understanding. by the average gothamist reader ohio transplant who worships cops.

its easy to understand we dont need to send nyc cops to yonkers and back all day. sorry.

just like we dont setup drunk driving check points in jersey, its overstepping the bounds and its just going to create a legal problem when they start to arrest people for petty things, they are not going to find terrorists, they will find drunks, litters, pissers, vandals, fare evaders, breaking up fights,,, etc

they are not going to find terrorists with bombs, and whats going to end up happening is another lawsuit that costs the city money when they set their sights on an innocent rider who just happens to be middle eastern.

not worth it, unless you want bloomberg to pay another settlement for violating someones civil rights.

"its oversimplified for the ease of understanding. by the average gothamist reader ohio transplant who worships cops."

It's not "oversimplifying" to name agencies that don't even exist. Three police agencies cover the jurisdictions you meantioned; you listed five -- three of them nonexistent. That would actually be more accurately called over-complicating.

If you're going to hold yourself up as the knowledgeable New Yorker looking down at the "Ohio transplants," it'd be a good idea to demonstrate that you yourself understand the topic.

now that's a smackdown!

funny how the NYPD want's to be america's army when so few were in the army.

theres specific MTA transit divisions that have jurisdiction in multiple lopcations, like the Metronorth Police, the Amtrack police, THE LIRR cops, the Port Authority police, the Path police etc etc.

I get your point, but that's putting it pretty inaccurately.

MTA police cover Metro-North and LIRR. There haven't been "Metro-North police" or "LIRR police" in years.

PATH is run by the Port Authority, so covered by Port Authority Police.

Amtrak (has no 'c'), you're right, has its own police department.

Neither PATH, the Port Authority, nor Amtrak are "MTA transit divisions."

haha, overtime machine. imaginary cushy anti terror job.

its not anti terror, its not anti crime. its not about safety...

its the pro-overtime task force.

what next? the nypd riding the PATH train back and forth to newark all day.

its not about suburban resources, theres specific MTA transit divisions that have jurisdiction in multiple lopcations, like the Metronorth Police, the Amtrack police, THE LIRR cops, the Port Authority police, the Path police etc etc.

this is a joke, anti terror activity? or easy overtime?

you decide.

cant wait to hear what bloomberg has to say about this.

maybe he can call the reporter who asks a disgrace.

maybe we need another egomaniac TV host calling critics traitors to the country.

Basically, the city is trying to use their officers are long as they possibly can because the city and state budgets are in the crapper. To justify not laying off 1000 cops, the Bloomberg administration has to say that they need most of those cops because they're so busy now. All over the state police agencies are doing this, so you've got cops hanging out at movie theaters, which they will write on their official reports as doing "crowd control".

Not like it changes things though, at the end of the day the city is going to have to fire a good amount of cops and other civil service workers, yes, teachers as well. That is unless Bloomberg cashes in his fortune and donates it to the city.

it's easier for you to live in a vacuum isn't it?

as long as it's hooked up to a vaporizer.

jurisdiction, what jurisdiction? NYPD is the world's police force.

Ofcourse they should be rocking the burbs. Everyone diserve to get treated (shot, run over, harrassed......)by the NYPD

The NYPD has better resources than the MTA and the suburban forces.

Every time, bar none, that I am in Grand Central and see the MTA officers, at least one of 'em is chatting on the cell phone with an expression not unlike what you would see on a little kid on his first trip to Disney World.

Just sayin'.

never cross streams in a pissing contest.