The denser a city is the cheaper it should be to patrol. Cops should be distributed based on crime rate and what is going on.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ascetic

You are correct. Only gov employees have that benefit. Everyone else is free game to be discriminated. My bad. To my defense, once upon a time I believed Usa to be better than average totalitarian regime. The thinking, intelligent people knows thats not the case.

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But these people lost their minds when BLM blocked traffic a few years ago. You mean to tell me their concern trolling wasn’t genuine?!

Average person works 260 days a year assuming a 5-day work week, that’s 2,080 hours. So if teachers work 55 hours a week they still work less than the average person. OT for someone who gets off an average of 75 days (15* working weeks!) a year more than the average working person without even considering vacay days is a laughable proposition.

You’re not informed enough to have this discussion. 😂 😂 😂 🥱 🥱 🥱

In theory, yeah, you can. In practice, you would need to convince people to remove an area that is currently dedicated to car traffic, in order to turn it into a canal.

Though a canal is way better than car traffic, currently, turning one of those car-traffic-shocked streets into anything but that (eg. bike lanes, pedestrian plazas, etc), is a massive political undertaking. Imagine doing that PLUS coming up with the funds to rebuild and maintain a canal.

And? Just because you’re a minority police officer doesn’t mean you can’t be implicit in systemic abuse. One of the cops at Floyd’s arrest was black and wanted to reform the department when he first joined like a year before.

How has the pandemic affected NYC's night life the past few years? And What's the best neighborhood/borough for night owls such as myself?

🤣🤣🤣🥱🥱🥱 And most teachers work more than 40 hours a week, have second jobs, and work during the summer to afford to live in or near NYC.

Y’all always have the same stupid shit to say and don’t understand that this isn’t 1950 right? The wage of teachers has not risen with inflation nor with their level of education (master’s for most) and cost of living.

Pigs barely even need to have a fucking diploma or any advanced degree.

STFU.

Idk if that is apples to apples. This source shows the ~$5B in the calculation as personnel only, without benefits, debt service, pension... the total number looks more like ~$11B.

https://www.vera.org/downloads/publications/a-look-inside-the-new-york-city-police-department-budget.pdf

https://cbcny.org/research/five-fast-facts-about-nypds-adopted-fy-2022-budget

The Dutch built some canals and dikes for transportation and drainage purpose. When the British took control of the colony in 1664, they renamed it New York, and the city continued to evolve over time. Many of the original Dutch canals were eventually filled in or paved over as Manhattan's streets and infrastructure expanded. The one notable waterway, Canal Street, was constructed much later in the early 19th century by Americans, not the Dutch. The canal was built to divert water from the pond to the Hudson River, and the street that was eventually built over the canal was named Canal Street.

Off to the old Amsterdam with you

At this point even 2$ a slice is still a great deal.

36k officers but divide that by 3 8 hour shifts, meaning at any one time theres about 12k officers out on the streets.

Then you have to factor in special details like the subway one right now, special high profile events like sports, and then the fact that 12k at any one time is the max and that number goes down with officers on vacation, sick or just on a normal day off which they get 2 of per week. That means that at any point theres only about 9k officers working.

As for money, Overtime is 1.5x the hourly rate. For normal rank and file thats like $60 an hour. More for sergeants and supervisors. That kind of money adds up quickly.

It’s still good pizza, even with the price increase. New Yorkers have honestly been spoiled as everyplace else pays way more.

> The ditch are expert canal builders

They’d have to be, with a name like “the ditch.”

I don’t think you know what canals are.

There were not canals in NYC for thousands or millions of years. Are you thinking of uncovering streams and rivers that have been paved over?

Uhhhhhhhh teachers get summers and holidays off along with winter and spring breaks. You want OT for people that work 185 days a year? Our teachers are incredible people and deserve great pay but wtf are you talking about with OT?

This so far is the best answer I've gotten and thoroughly explains

> Saw all the dumbfuck racists from my class sign up for the NYPD and make the same kind of posts you do …I’m sure minorities are cramming for cops like pat Lynch to police their neighborhoods.

Live here your whole life and don’t understand the majority of the NYPD is made up of minorities. So much ignorance.

It's not really feasible as the canals existed a LONG time ago, namely during the time of Dutch settlement in New Amsterdam.

The ditch are expert canal builders and brought a lot of what they learned from developing their cities to the island of Manhattan.

However, while the Dutch were great canal builders, the English were great land builders. As in London, English settlers and their subsequent anglo-Nee Yorker descendants filled in acres and acres of the river and wetlands systems such that the edge the water where canals used to start are far from the rivers.

That being said Canals don't really make sense for New York. 200 years of development and infilling mean every square inch if Manhattan is densely developed high density urban landscape. It wouldn't be feasible nor beneficial to rip a canal into the city. No canal transportation could possibly compete with the high efficiency of rail in that kind of setting.

Thank you for posting this. For people that live in the city this sub really has a hard time understanding what a massive undertaking policing this place is.

The ferries could actually stop closer to subway connections.