These are probably money savers in the long-run. Less maintenance and way less energy wasted when idling which is 90% of a cop's day. When I idled for an hour in an EV with the AC blasting, it used up less than 2% of the battery. Doing it in a gas car would have used up 0.5-1 gallon of gas.

"Top notch hibachi" really rolls off the tongue

I’m glad youre an expert on police fleets and vehicle replacements!

Lol, you must have never heard of AM radio or Fox's stations.

Drive through the middle of the country and you'll hear some terrible crap from the cross-draggers.

DA Bragg designed them

Fined but not shut down.

> The seizure of their equipment by federal agents did not deter the Ayoras from continuing to operate their pirate radio station

These guys are based. Keep it going, you harm nobody and help many. Fuck the FCC, burn down that captured regulatory body. We don’t want corpos making the rules anymore.

Yes But they're not issuing any more licenses for am/fm.

So how do you get a new radio station if you can't? Fucking "I Heart Whatever the fuck" owns all the goddamn stations in the US almost. The rock stations are all BS drivel.

Don't you want new music and new opinions? These guys provided a service for a group of people. That's more than anyone can say of the FCC.

this is like that Malcolm in the Middle episode. 😂

the parks department has one too. im guessing that Ford is practically giving them away to establish the brand in people's minds.

Should be even higher!

Bruh licensed radio stations promote plenty of hate, this has nothing to do with the content

imagine buying the Flatiron at auction. fucking wild and congrats to the new owner. now don't fuck this up.

NYPD POLICE

NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT POLICE

Yeah no telling what they would have done NEXT!!!

Yup. Plus police spend a lot of time idling, where EVs excel. Very little battery use during that time instead of wasting fuel and engine wear. The other big gain is in stop and go traffic, the other place where police spend a fair amount of time.

Lower maintenance should end up costing less with less downtime and fewer cars out of service.

Everyone wants to hate, but if the cars need to be replaced, EV is the way to go. I bet it ends up costing less than buying new gas cars in the long run.

I am the biggest radio advocate there is. I worked in radio for the majority of my professional life and believe when operated correctly (having all local programming, personalities, and content), it is truly the best medium.

With that being said, this article and commenters here painting this as some sort of government overreach or overreaction is ridiculous. You cannot just broadcast on a random frequency all willy nilly. Those licenses are insanely expensive and these brothers should just have an internet radio station where they won't run into trouble.

Also the FCC has essentially no other powers other than legislating public airwaves so this is in no way a waste of their time or resources. This is exactly what they are set up to do. This is not the equivalent of 30 cops showing up to a drug store for a stolen candy bar and it should not be treated as such.

These brothers are providing a valuable resource for a specific community. No denying that. But you gotta do it legally. And it seems like they were given plenty of warnings ahead of time that they completely ignored. I have no sympathy here.

You should join the NYPD and advocate for this! Also, the NYPD had the least amount of police related shootings of any major department in this country, they’re not going around doing drive-bys.

😆 so if someone isnt hater like you - then its Putin lover? 🤣🤣🤣 you are having exact Russian communist mentality. It will be really hard for you to grasp that there are peopke around who have brain. Like I dont have to like Rusdia or agree with it but I dont have to be mentally challenge insecure primitive that lash out on everyone around just because they are from some country. 🙄... I know, I know.. beyond your grasp ..

DoE budget: $40 billion (highest ever) despite a 10% enrollment decline since 2019.

I understand both sides of the argument radio station operators and FCC. But it can't operate an unlicensed radio station flip side what if it was somebody promoting anti-Semitism or hate instead of community events and news that's positive and helpful. You can't shut one illegal radio station down and then let another one run they all have to be shut down

Electric NYPD cars don't make much sense, this all just feels like greenwashing. If they get into a crash, you would need to scrap the entire car as the battery may be damaged. EVs are also more expensive than ICE cars.

We need the NYPD to move away from cars altogether and use smaller modes of mobility. Most police work isn't chasing down people on highways or transporting people, so why do they need so many large cars? Just give every department like 20 e-bikes for every car, only keep a couple of cars per precinct for people transport.

Not only would it increase police efficiency (no traffic restriction), but it would also open up the NYPD to be more empathetic and better at policing. Being in a protected, metal box leads to a disassociation from the surrounding space and people (you may as well be in a private house, not a public space). This has been shown to lead people to become less empathetic (this is also why perfectly normal people can sometimes become lunatics behind the wheel). We don't want police officers that don't feel part of the place they are patrolling, that's how you end up with afraid, trigger-happy officers.

Good stuff, these guys should follow the rules just like everyone else. Now do all the rest of the QoL stuff.

What a necessary thing that this city needed to spend it’s money on…

Good to see them finally tackle the important crimes.

Don't worry, this only costs 2 year of funding from a school.

Don't you feel safer already?