It’s always exactly who you expect
Traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck driving above the speed limit or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. It belongs to an NYPD cop.
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Wudi@feddit.uk to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
I’m picturing some John wick character who legitimately finds himself in tons of car chases and ticking time bomb scenarios
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tell me again how traffic cameras make us safer and we can totally trust them to be applied objectively for public safety and no other purpose?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They aren’t for safety…they are totally for revenue.
With regards to school zones, specifically, if they cared about safety, they would be putting in mechanisms to slow traffic naturally. Raised crosswalks. Rotaries. Narrower lanes. Crossing guards.
They don’t put any of those in.
A couple towns over from me, they just put a brand new highschool right on the intersection of two major state highways, about 1/4 mile from the interstate. If they cared about the kids, they’ve put the school in a less busy area to begin with.
But instead, they demo’d an old pedestrian bridge that was keeping kids off the road for crossing, and set up a speed cam and issuing tickets in the spring before the school even opened.
And of course the school zone creates a bottleneck for people exiting the highway in rush hour, with ripple effects well down the freeway.
Fucking assholes.
But at least Theil gets paid.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 weeks ago
Just because they are corrupt cops above the law dosen’t mean that speed cameras dosen’t work. Hidden cameras that are only there to “catch” speeders are pretty stupid, but cameras with warning about their proximity are pretty useful to slow down drivers before conflict points
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
If the goal is to reduce speeding, road design plays more of a factor more than cameras.
A fine means that it’s a revenue grab.
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not every mechanism of society needs to be built around fear of punishment. In fact, i would say that none should be in and ideal society. There are numerous ways to not instill fear in people every second of every day. It even would make a healthier society if people didn’t live in perpetual fear of the state.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m surprised no one has challenged you on this. (I agree with your point, but people do tend to defend cameras zealously)
wabasso@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Wait, I’m a zealous camera defender, what am I missing?
The one they put up temporarily by my kid’s school noticeably calmed traffic near it (myself included—I’m not perfect).
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Tear them all down.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Maybe in US…
From where I am, they are 100% slowing everyone down. In fact, so much that I am getting annoyed by that. Thing is, people will go 60 in 50 zone, then see a camera sign, slow down to fucking 40, roll pass it and then pedal to the metal back to 60.
Easy optional solution how to make people actually slow down on the camera: make fine indexed. If they earn a ton, they get a huge ass fine. Say 5% of a monthly income. Stacks to 50% if they are a serial rule breaker. That way not many will speedup.
crozilla@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 weeks ago
Without reading, I’ll read it after this, but I’m zero percent surprised. Only people I’ve seen buy ram trucks are ones who do not care about others and want to be seen as big and tuff.
Hell the vast majority of truck drivers too, sorry not sorry folks but you do not need a truck to drive to your office daily, or to drive the family around, you got it as a status symbol. RAM drivers are just the worst of them all.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hey, well here’s one that bought one with a 2 seat cab, to haul drywall and various construction materials.
prodaccess@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There are many people in my highly liberal and progressive PNW town that drive trucks. The majority seem to be decent people based on my interactions on the road with them as a pedestrian and cyclist.
I do agree most people don’t need trucks, and it’s more of a performative masculinity thing, or maybe that’s just what they’ve been conditioned to like.
fratermus@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Only people I’ve seen buy ram trucks are ones who do not care about others and want to be seen as big and tuff.
The brodozer phenomenon is real and lamentable.
At the moment I am getting a reprieve from it. I moved to a small agricultural town* where the pickups are actually work trucks. Hay bales, animal feed bags, and farm dogs in the bed. It makes this grinch’s heart grow a little larger.
*actually just a Census Designated Place
catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
First line of the article says he is supposed to protect New Yorkers. That is not true. Police have successfully lobbied for decades and have absolutely no mandate to protect anyone but themselves. They loudly and clearly stated that their job specifically exists to enforce the status quo and to bulldoze through anyone in the way. They don’t want to help anyone. They don’t want to protect anyone. It’s in their job description and their training not to.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It’s in their job description and their training not to.
Chat, is this true?
greenhorn@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Warren v. District of Columbia “is a District of Columbia Court of Appeals case that held that the police do not owe a specific duty to provide police services to specific citizens based on the public duty doctrine.” And Castle Rock v. Gonzales, is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, 7–2, that a town and its police department could not be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for refusing to enforce a restraining order, even though the refusal led to the murders of a woman’s three children by her estranged husband.
catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
In most circumstances, police officers do not owe a personal duty to protect specific individuals from harm. The dominant principle comes from the U.S. Supreme Court decision in DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services (1989)
Also see: Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005) Warren v. District of Columbia (1981) Linda R.S. v. Richard D. (1973)
As you can see from reading through the cases mentioned above, the law doesn’t require police to protect you or even to enforce the law. Combine this with precedent set by police unions and qualified immunity.
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
This highlights some pretty lax road traffic law tbh.
Not being able to suspend a licence because they were caught on a camera is fucking moronic.
CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
After over 500 times it seems more appropriate to revoke and never allow reapplication
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Here, after that many proven violations, the car itself would’ve been impounded.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The cameras in north america typically aim at the plates and not the driver themselves, so there is plausible deniability for who was driving making the lisence difficult to suspend. That said, there is no good reason they can’t suspend the registration or impound the vehicle itself regardless of who was driving.
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
In the UK you are legally required to say who was driving at the time.
If you refuse then you get the blame.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Your friend can be driving the vehicle, they know the vehicle sped, but not who was actually driving. So demerits aren’t issued.
fira@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Fuck the police
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
comin’ straight from the underground
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wait, hold up. In the picture, is that the actual size of that truck? Or has the size been exaggerated?
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I live in a small town so I’m sorry to say, that is exactly how big pickup trucks are now. What isn’t clear from the angle of that photo is the bed is most likely less than 6 feet long, meaning it can fit less in the bed than a minivan with only rearmost row folded down.
The best part is, in rural America there’s folks who look at that stock truck, say it isn’t big enough and get a lift kit and extra large tires installed so it rides 2 feet off the ground and the wheels extend multiple inches past the fenders (sometimes they’re further out than the mirrors even) and the illegality of such mods on public roads goes entirely unenforced. Oh and those are the folks who don’t also make their trucks roll coal
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh god, the rolling of coal. So help me these fuckers literally give people cancer and think it is funny.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What’s weird is is that truck isn’t tall enough for how big it is if you want to do practical work and haul shit. It would bottom out if you put a real load in it. These things are so weird to me. This thing is a glorified grocery hauler.
AartKwarktaart@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m fully convinced that in 50 years we will be STUNNED that this was normal once. Just like lobotomies, or smoking in schools.
CannedYeet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We could not determine whether Giovansanti has ever harmed someone by speeding. But the circumstantial evidence is not reassuring: The right side of his truck is visibly damaged, and he refused to answer a straightforward question about his collision history.
If it was his car being damaged while parked it would be the left side, so probably not that.
sudo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Have you never parked on a one-way? Or literally anywhere other than the right shoulder of a road? That said, it’s literally unbelievable this person still has a license (until you learn they are a fascist pig)
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
This is comedically on the nose, absolutely ridiculous. How is reality so heavy-handed in its lessons
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
truck drivers are synonymous with speeding and drunk driving, and usually driven by meatheads.
Narauko@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s specifically Ram truck drivers for the drunk driving part, most DUIs of any make and model by a long shot.
texture@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
they cant park either. smh
betanumerus@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Receiving 547 fines in the mail means he’s treating speeding as a paid subscription.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
License points are a thing in some US states too
MiwAuturu@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Even in Canada, tickets from traffic cameras don’t cost points. The vehicle owner is responsible for paying the fines, but without being able to prove that the owner was the one driving they can’t add demerits.
Technoworcester@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Uk here. Failing to advise who the driver was can get the owner 6 points and likely a driving ban.
blattrules@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He’s paid all of them too?! If a cop has a spare $36k to spend on being a reckless driver, he’s being paid way too much.
Rothe@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
If I was American, I would be a lot more than mildly infuriated about the pedocratic police state that is the US. But I am not American, so mildy infuriated fits perfectly for me I guess.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
As an (US)American, I wake up every morning screaming into the Void.
Then the Void requests a subscription fee.
I’m not legally allowed to sleep until I’ve paid the Void, one way or another.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I wake up every morning thanking whatever god wants to listen that I wasn’t born American.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ACAB
GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Rules for thee but not for me”
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
2 times each 5 days over 4 years. How come he still has a license?
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Cop
FatVegan@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
That and… How do you afford these expenses? Also cop?
wolfeh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
surprisedpikachuface.jpg
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I bet that cop abuses their spouse.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
there’s a polymarket for that.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Hopefully one day a fully loaded semi truck explains to him the error of his ways.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t wish that on the smi driver. They don’t get paid enough to have therapy for the kind of trauma you get from turning another person into paste. And also probably losing their CDL over it.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
That’s fair. But by this point I can’t trust the bastard to become entangled with a street light.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
547 times? including red lights and school zones?
shoot 'em and be done with it. no place for this person in society, and there’s nowhere on earth that deserves having them dropped there
llmbot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
since nobody else seems up to the task, why don’t you go over there and do it?
ductTapedWindow@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
An average full size truck sits at 6". This short king is the height of a 12 year old
Branch_Ranch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
- 6’
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Probably exactly why he needs a giant car. This, and perhaps the size of something else.
brownsugga@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
wild that something this NYC specific is up top. this dude is in for it, i think
jonesey71@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Police get away with murder, the most this cop is in for is high fives from his fellow piggies.
brownsugga@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
NYC has more than a few crusader types. Not saying he’ll do time, but his day to day will probably get a lot more annoying
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And if he causes an accident, his victim goes down for it. That’s NY.
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Oh, I thought it was just literally every white Ford F150.
SqueakySpider@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Hilarious that the final picture has a WRX sports car behind the truck, that you may expect the nypd to be more likely to actually punish for spending.
Elilol@fedinsfw.app 2 weeks ago
Well, aren’t all cops above the laws of gods and men?
They would need qualifications if they weren’t
tramdan@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
548?
WagnasT@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
That is indeed more than 547, but it is impossible to tell.
cmeu@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t normalize automated driving enforcement, ALPRs and police surveillance tech. I get the spirit of this story that the watchers should be held accountable, but when the electric eye is on us we’re all criminals. The surveillance state needs to die
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Manlet with purse, looks like he needs a good series of beatings and de-teething.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Perfect example of policing in America. Their primary mission as a force is to protect themselves at all costs just like any other gang or criminal organization.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Fun fact! Police collectively make up a majority of cases of armed robbery,* and it’s totally legal for them
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Civil asset forfeiture is one of those things where when you hear about it your first reaction is that it must be some fringe conspiracy theory because there’s no way the police could get away with something like that, right? But no, it’s really that bad and done completely in the open. Cops can just steal your shit out of “suspicion” and the process of getting it back is deliberately labyrinthine and difficult.
gnomebody@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Taking all the lemon pounds cake
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s their secondary mission. Their primary mission is to terrorise the populace into submission.
MBech@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
Well if I may be a bit pedantic, that’s merely a consequense of their real primary mission. To safeguard the interest of the capitalist elite. It’s really just a coincidence that terrorising the populace into submission achieves that mission.