After reading some of the comments in the NYT concerning "feelings" for the NYPD from its readers it is apparent that most are based upon nothing but "feelings," rumors and innuendo. Some are outright lies! I would hope the city can find a better way of determining how the NYPD are doing rather than collecting anonymous replies to a questionnaire. I believe the internet has proven many times that there is very little truth in anonymity.
All nonsense and hot air. Call me when the Broken Windows theory stops being the go to plan for police outlook on neighborhoods they patrol. No Mayor would ever badmouth or dismantle that policy due to re-elections pressures and smearing from rags like the Post.
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Where can I submit my phone number for the questionnaire?
This sounds like a good program. I would be happy for the police to have as much information as possible from me. I had a neighbor in distress yesterday and about five police officers came into our building to intervene. The officers were very professional and handled everything with great care. They deescalated the situation with much sensitivity. A text forwarded to the police was instrumental in getting the help that was desperately needed. Sorry if I've gone a bit off topic, but I don't think we here enough about the good work and intentions displayed by the majority of our cities police officers.
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Yes we do, that's all we hear about. When they misbehave though we never hear about any convicted or punished police officers. Daniel Pantaleo still walks around a free man for murdering Eric Garner. What does that tell you about how we treat our police officers?
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Only time will tell us if this new app is productive; certainly, it's intended for community outreach, which most citizens support. My preference would be officers on foot in my neighborhood, but that idea has gone the way of the dodo. There will be objections, of course, from the usual suspects who feel they are "over-surveilled," whatever that means, but most NYers will appreciate the opportunity the program affords.
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This blast of complete and utter paranoia, from the columnist as well as your respondents, is the perfect illustration of why this data has to be collected in this way and not through the usual political-survey and poll channels. Giant congratulations to the de Blasio Administration for being the ones to launch this. Now, two questions: (1) do the results break down reliably to the precinct level? They don't have to be aggregated weekly, like crime statistics - quarterly would be fine - but it has to be localized to mean something. (2) Is it going to be posted online publicly like the rest of CompStat?
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There's a sea of YouTube evidence against the NYPD that have acted outside their scope, violated constitutional rights, or they broke laws and in my case I have proof including police reports, audios and my attackers false cross complaint so it's easy for you to make broad general put downs but we have proof ;where's your proof ? You come on this website and you're allowed to put down people that are getting out the truth and or expressing their feelings!
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Any of the people you interviewed ready to become a cop?
Probably not — they can't tolerate that level of corruption.
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This is just a PR stunt and a waste of taxpayer dollars.
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Excellent comment. Right on!
This is worthless as a measure of public opinion of the police. There is no sample, there is control over who answers the phone, or who chooses to respond having answered the phone. Cell phone service is spotty in lots of places, skewing the data even more. I could go on, but what's the point? The only use of the data is to track routine movements of New Yorkers. Not very comforting in an era when digital private is fragile or even non-existent.
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Nice use of technology but it won't matter because deBlasio is intentionally turning the NYPD into a passive docile organization, not the crime-fighting machine it's supposed to be.
They're tax paid civil servants. Nothing more, nothing less.
When I was a kid in New York, there was a cop on every corner. Now they just show up to write reports about the crime that just happened.
The commissioner need not tap into all of our cell phones to find out how the NYPD is doing. Just have everyone in the NYPD carry a mirror.
It's understandable how people who work in poorly maintained buildings, with uniforms that look like they were bought in a thrift shop and cars that look dirty, (and probably smell much worse), may have a poor attitude towards their employer.
Sadly, police can (and often do) take their low morale out on the public instead of their bosses.
It's understandable how people who work in poorly maintained buildings, with uniforms that look like they were bought in a thrift shop and cars that look dirty, (and probably smell much worse), may have a poor attitude towards their employer.
Sadly, police can (and often do) take their low morale out on the public instead of their bosses.
Answers cannot be anonymous if they have your phone number, so any data is entirely unreliable. Do not respond.
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From ''The Untouchables ;
Malone: '' [to Ness on the walkway underneath a bridge] You just fulfilled the first rule of law enforcement: make sure when your shift is over you go home alive. Here endeth the lesson. ''
There is nothing that can replace the confidence and safety instilled from the policeman that walks his\her beat in the local community.
Having said that, anything that is the modern equivalent that closely reenacts the above can only be a good thing.
Here's hoping it is a wildly successful program that reduces crime overall.
Malone: '' [to Ness on the walkway underneath a bridge] You just fulfilled the first rule of law enforcement: make sure when your shift is over you go home alive. Here endeth the lesson. ''
There is nothing that can replace the confidence and safety instilled from the policeman that walks his\her beat in the local community.
Having said that, anything that is the modern equivalent that closely reenacts the above can only be a good thing.
Here's hoping it is a wildly successful program that reduces crime overall.
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Crime caused by police that is
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I have come up with the concept of an NYPD app tracker and similar data bases which allow the public to search nyc gov data bases or in the NYPD's case build a citizens data base.
The NYPD app tracker would allow victims to report crimes the NYPD won't let them including NYPD crimes as well as show how the public sees crimes very differently than NYPD and or be a time capsule for families who allege their love ones were murdered by the NYPD.
I was a victim of a violent crime at a doctors office in Soho. The attack was so violent I had to have laser surgery on my eye to repair my retina. The crime stats for that precinct the 1st Precinct never reflected the attack, the threat of bodily harm, objects that hit my body and my attacker threw her shoes. The video evidence was acknowledged and the attack written up by an nypd public member but detective "doctored" the DD5s aka police reports and I got some of them because corporate counsel accidentally gave them to me.
The NYPD app tracker would allow victims to organize all the evidence they have and what they're missing and report every government agency they reached out to for help.
Ray Kelly taught me NYPD fix crime stats like a Las Vegas casino.
When Bratton took over he taught turn broken windows back on the NYPD.
I would ask Mr O'Neill would any victim of the NYPD would believe your survey to be accurate ?
and every government agency they reached out to you as well as the partition perhaps
The NYPD app tracker would allow victims to report crimes the NYPD won't let them including NYPD crimes as well as show how the public sees crimes very differently than NYPD and or be a time capsule for families who allege their love ones were murdered by the NYPD.
I was a victim of a violent crime at a doctors office in Soho. The attack was so violent I had to have laser surgery on my eye to repair my retina. The crime stats for that precinct the 1st Precinct never reflected the attack, the threat of bodily harm, objects that hit my body and my attacker threw her shoes. The video evidence was acknowledged and the attack written up by an nypd public member but detective "doctored" the DD5s aka police reports and I got some of them because corporate counsel accidentally gave them to me.
The NYPD app tracker would allow victims to organize all the evidence they have and what they're missing and report every government agency they reached out to for help.
Ray Kelly taught me NYPD fix crime stats like a Las Vegas casino.
When Bratton took over he taught turn broken windows back on the NYPD.
I would ask Mr O'Neill would any victim of the NYPD would believe your survey to be accurate ?
and every government agency they reached out to you as well as the partition perhaps
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A similar message needs to be sent to police officials and officers asking them how safe and confidant do they feel while performing duties especially under full media coverage?
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