My last year in NY, the whole city had a blackout, and there were basically zero crimes, but what there WAS was everybody went outside and checked on neighbors and went to bars, who did deals on warming beer, and all the traffic lights were out, so I went out to Eighth Ave where our nearest stoplight was and directed traffic going both ways for about an hour/hour-and-a-half until neighbor came up and said "You need a break?" and we all kept doing that until it was late enough that cars could proceed carefully and the stoplights didn't matter that much anymore - and people did this ALL OVER THE CITY cuz they see traffic snarls and hear honks down the block and it's fucking organic thing to do, right? I wandered around later, did a bar-hop with my buddy Carlos, and we didn't see a cop the whole time. Because we didn't need them. Not saying there weren't material USES for cops, then or ever, but New York's a bigger, safer, more communitarian thing than every dumbfuck Republican who has never been there and demonizes it can even conceive, cuz those people are, uniformly, dumbass redneck fuckstumps who think EVERY city is Saigon in 1975 or something. New York doesn't fake being nice like some dogshit burg in Iowa but they, neighbors, businesses, civil society groups, citizens, take care of shit in the neighborhood as needs be and nobody asks for your fucking papers when doing it.

@GrimmReality
When I saw this tweet, I just assumed that Bari Weiss made up this bullshit from whole cloth. It's her MO, after all.
"The absolute dread I feel is palpable," words never spoken by the NYPD, ever.

@Azuaron I don't fucken know, he was a starry-eyed naif about a TON of basic dynamics INTRINSIC to the dogshit economy he lived in. I mean, even if he WAS anti-rent, he would've "come to understand the need for rent" if he lived long enough to be paid to say that.

@GrimmReality oh you're right - this is notepad.exe what was I thinking?

@mogul @rootwyrm It would be an awesome exit-poll thing to show Dersh to help him follow through.