The Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget is very much affiliated with the Mayor.

The OMB projections are also made up…

COVID absolutely played a huge role. Courts had to cancel a bunch of hearings and trials, which then got rescheduled and pushed other hearings and trials back, etc. Courts were already struggling with the workload pre-COVID and they haven’t caught up since.

OK. Clearly not the job for you, and no one with those requirements would ever be hired for it. Your personal comfort level isn’t all that relevant—the job necessitates commenting on religious practices. People who take the job take it knowing they may ruffle some feathers. Not everyone is completely conflict-averse.

That’s not feasible if someone works in a newsroom that writes about religious issues. You may as well tell an accountant to avoid discussing taxes.

But it’s way easier to call the government useless and hypocritical if we pretend it’s an amorphous blob rather than a group of oft-competing interests with different levels of authority.

That’s not me.

No I’m not. It’s the City’s liability, the City’s funds, and the City’s decision to settle. If the cops aren’t a party, they have no authority or responsibility in the matter.

And why would they have any direction in the defense if they don’t have any liability?

We can pay a salary that easily covers basic insurance premiums. If the premiums rise because of the officer’s record, that’s on them. That’s the whole point—make it economically harder to repeat offenders to maintain a career in law enforcement. It’s exactly how we treat doctors. If someone’s insurance premiums are significantly higher than average for the industry, they’re probably not cut out for it.

If cops want to personally defend themselves, they’re free to waive qualified immunity. I don’t see that happening voluntarily ever.

And what a face.

There’s plenty of maybes. More data is needed to say anything conclusively either way. Your maybe is no likelier than mine.

Mine’s got plenty of historical basis, though.

It was an example based on historical practices. I don’t have anything specific to fake plates.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nypd-traffic-stops-racial-disparity/

> While the race of those stopped in 2022 is roughly proportional to the city's demographics, the numbers skew when enforcement escalates.

Stops may be representative, but stops leading to fine or arrest are not. That would suggest white motorists are more likely to get off with a warning. We don’t have enough data to confirm either way (there are certainly other factors at play at least to some extent), but it’s worth further research.

Ah, so the stops are proportionate, but arrests aren’t. That’s even worse. NYPD lets white people off with a warning more often for the same violation.

Why would I need to accept that when you’ve offered no evidence of your claim?

You enforce the law against lawbreakers and you apply discretion equally regardless of a person’s race, gender, etc. You don’t, for example, give a warning to a white motorist and then a ticket to a black motorist for the same violation. You don’t target enforcement operations at neighborhoods full of people of color while ignoring the same violations in white neighborhoods.

Oh c’mon. I’m asking why the NYPD excuses a certain class of criminals. I’m in favor of enforcement, but I don’t believe it’s being done fairly—which means some criminals are getting away with it. I’d like to see that stop. Why do you want it to continue?

No shit, but that doesn’t address whether enforcement is done in a discriminatory manner.

A subset of them, and not necessarily a representative one.

Now we know who’s being stopped with fake license plates.

The directive came from OCFS. It’s a state issue.

That’s not irony.

“I know you are but what am I?” Real mature.

Nonsense in, nonsense out.