You're forgetting the part where the cops GOT CAUGHT LYING IN OVER 500,000 DIFFERENT CASES IN NYC.

You're forgetting the part where thousands of NYPD officers have been ARRESTED by other NYPD officers b/c corruption is rampant.

You're forgetting the part where MORONS LIKE YOU pay $100 million every 12 months to settle lawsuits from corrupt cops (and the cops don't pay a cent).

ONE SOLUTION IS SIMPLE:

everyone votes using their social security number, and ONLY the people who voted for Bloombag have to pay (via their taxes) for any of the bad shit this convicted criminal does (just as only people who voted for Bush should have to pay for the Iraq war). (I also didn't vote for the black bush Obama, fyi.)

AND NONE OF YOU THINK BLOOMBERG IS A CONVICTED CRIMINAL even though dozens of judges and juries have found him GUILTY of breaking serious laws, b/c NO MEDIA OUTLETS call him a convicted criminal, and b/c he enjoys "sovereign immunity" and can't be cuffed even if he murders firemen.

(Bloomberg's words. Not mine. He says he can't be arrested if he violates fed law!!!!)

And you sheep just sit there and do NOTHING.

Yo man, passion is a good thing, but relentlessley spouting the same ideas arranged differently with different all caps emphasis points on 70% of the threads on this blog does nothing for your credibility and makes people automatically passover your posts. It's like having the same f'kin american apparel ads on every page, i don't even see them anymore.

pick and choose brother, i don't disagree that politicians are corrupt. that's what they are. Anyone who wants that much power shouldn't be trusted with it. kind of a catch 22. maybe they should do it like jury duty but with an IQ limit or something, everyone over a 125 IQ may have to spend a year as the mayor or a councilman, etc. i don't know, but seriously. keep it to a 1 post per topic if you're just going to write the same thing over and over.

Thanks, HTH.

CXB for mayor!...

I guess felix now has a kindred spirit.

And you're on the right track about REFORM, (which Gothamist seems not interested in)...

EX:

you have to pass a test of skill and knowledge to get a drivers license but not to become mayor or president???

THERE SHOULD BE POP QUIZZES for anyone who wants to be on the ballot, and if you're a totally empty suit like Psycho Mike (who refused to answer almost any questions about his platform or invisible ideas to run the City in 2001) you'd NOT BE ALLOWED ON THE BALLOT.

(Oh wait... did I already post this on other threads? NOPE.)

But each of my posts CLEARLY is filled with DIFFERENT FUN FACTS about govt and media corruption.

Sounds like you didn't actually read them.

(Oh wait... you already admitted this!)

(Catch 22 indeed!)

GO BACK TO RHODE ISLAND YA LITTLE BITCH!

this is great, im glad my tax money goes to pay these people who prove that cops are in the wrong.

Just to play devil's advocate, is the unedited video available? After the whole "ACORN vs pimp" debacle you can only trust what an edited video shows so far.

BTW - "Officer Dim" - nice ref my droogs.

rampant crime stat cover ups and these cops are out stealing bikes,even dimwit esu cops using their saw to cut the locks.and when a decent young man questions their tactics he is arrested.looks like a sign of things to come people.

Ok, so the NYPD guy needs to understand that the badge is an announcement of mandate of NYC citizens..

Always happens when you give an idiot a badge.

Most of the people with badges are idiots. Who else would stoop to that level for $25,000/year, other than your typical high-school bully-dropouts and unemployed microencepahlitic security guards?

Not for nothing, but you need to brush up on your NYPD pay scale.

"you need to brush up on your NYPD pay scale"

Yep. The truth is that the pay scale never was $25 grand a year to start (at least not in the past few decades). For a short time, that was the rate for the time in the academy, but that's for six months, not an entire year. The average pay at that time with for the first full year with holiday pay, uniform allowance, and average night differential was actually about $41,000. Right now the average NYPD officer in the first year earns over $46,000 before overtime.

http://www.nypdrecruit.com/

That $25,000 number was never anything but very successful propaganda. No NYPD officer in this century ever was paid so little.

If any of you wanted better cops you would've voted for candidates who promised reform, like Tony Avella or me.

But you didn't.

ANd actions speak louder than rhetoric, no?

You get what you deserve!

SUckers!

$100 million EVERY 12 MONTHS to settle NYPD corruption cases!!!!

Why don't you step down carefully off the soapbox and enjoy the beautiful weather outside?

I tried but NYC (under Psycho MIke's "leadership") replaced Los Angeles for WORST AIR IN THE NATION!

[author hacks up black soot...]

(No WONDER the left AND right wing media unanimously proclaimed Tax Hike Mike the Environmental Mayor!)

(Like a raw food diet, y'think the media would be able to argue that Mike being the NAKED Emperor is b/c he's getting back in touch with nature!!)

[author sure thinks he is funny and insightful!]

You also forget about OPERATION IMPACT, where Psycho Mike and Ray Kerik, er, Kelly said "let's put the MOST INEXPERIENCED COPS at the lowest pay, in the MOST DANGEROUS neighborhoods in NYC".

At this point, Bloomberg is a self-parody of a psychopathic dictator.

Ah, I stand corrected. Base salary starts at $41,975 now. I"m sort of shocked to see base pay after 5.5 years is $76,488. No wonder the thugs try to stay with the program...