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• CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fun fact! Police collectively make up a majority of cases of armed robbery,* and it’s totally legal for them

    • Legally, civil asset forfeiture is distinct from armed robbery. Literally, they are the same thing.

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    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • gnomebody@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Taking all the lemon pounds cake

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s their secondary mission. Their primary mission is to terrorise the populace into submission.

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    • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• ductTapedWindow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  An average full size truck sits at 6". This short king is the height of a 12 year old

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tear them all down.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m surprised no one has challenged you on this. (I agree with your point, but people do tend to defend cameras zealously)

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    • wabasso@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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).

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• Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s always exactly who you expect

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  • Zos_Kia@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m picturing some John wick character who legitimately finds himself in tons of car chases and ticking time bomb scenarios

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ACAB

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• fira@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck the police

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  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    comin’ straight from the underground

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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wait, hold up. In the picture, is that the actual size of that truck? Or has the size been exaggerated?

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh god, the rolling of coal. So help me these fuckers literally give people cancer and think it is funny.

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• brownsugga@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  wild that something this NYC specific is up top. this dude is in for it, i think

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  • jonesey71@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Police get away with murder, the most this cop is in for is high fives from his fellow piggies.

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• CannedYeet@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • sudo@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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)

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• crozilla@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  moparinsiders.com/study-shows-ram-truck-drivers-a…

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • prodaccess@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hey, well here’s one that bought one with a 2 seat cab, to haul drywall and various construction materials.

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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Manlet with purse, looks like he needs a good series of beatings and de-teething.

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• Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • CobblerScholar@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    After over 500 times it seems more appropriate to revoke and never allow reapplication

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    • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Here, after that many proven violations, the car itself would’ve been impounded.

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  • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      In the UK you are legally required to say who was driving at the time.

      If you refuse then you get the blame.

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Your friend can be driving the vehicle, they know the vehicle sped, but not who was actually driving. So demerits aren’t issued.

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• Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh, I thought it was just literally every white Ford F150.

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• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And if he causes an accident, his victim goes down for it. That’s NY.

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• mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is comedically on the nose, absolutely ridiculous. How is reality so heavy-handed in its lessons

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• blattrules@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• wolfeh@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  surprisedpikachuface.jpg

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• SqueakySpider@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Elilol@fedinsfw.app ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well, aren’t all cops above the laws of gods and men?

  They would need qualifications if they weren’t

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• GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Rules for thee but not for me”

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• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  • llmbot@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    since nobody else seems up to the task, why don’t you go over there and do it?

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    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      not allowed into the US

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  DDRAM?

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am somewhat less than enthused about American law enforcement.

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  • Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You mustbe English.

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• tramdan@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  548?

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  • WagnasT@piefed.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That is indeed more than 547, but it is impossible to tell.

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• kreskin@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh good, they located the one bad apple cop. Things will be better now right?

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Only assholes drive white trucks.

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• homes@piefed.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  😱

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