Peter Moskos
@PeterMoskos
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Back from the Brink: https://t.co/mABbQyS1jf Police focused (+ bikes & pigeons). The bouncer blocks quickly, sometimes just for bad vibes. @moskos elsewhere.
New York, NY
Joined November 2011
NYC (8.5mil) has fewer murders than Baltimore (625,000). Just cause this is the new normal, don't ignore the lessons. It wasn't inevitable.
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My first job as an usher in the Evanston Movie Theatre [sic] in Evanston Illinois involved putting a quarter in the meter every hour for the manager"s "private" public parking space right by the theater. Customers couldn't park there. Best parking spot there was.
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They talk about parking "for their customers." BS people are not driving to the grocery store. It's about parking for them. (It might be hard to imagine) But grocery stores here do not have parking lots. I don't know what to say. Their parking is not my concern.
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This really is a hugely vocal minority.
Less “I talked to a business owner who drives to work (even though none of his employees or customers do) and he HATES congestion pricing 😡” More data:
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And the other 80% aren't on social media. I mean it's not a conspiracy, it's a cause.
At least 20% of Zohran Mamdani transition committee team linked to radical anti-Zionist groups: ADL https://t.co/sXzyjX8lhC
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And 4 out of 5 of the other 80% aren't on social media. I mean, this is the one thing we know Mamdani and the DSA crew believes with conviction.
ADL just released a report on Mamdani’s transition team — not appointees: 20%+ of the committee members have ties to anti-Zionist groups like SJP or made anti-Israel statements. Dozens backed campus encampments; some attended. And several are linked to Nation of Islam/Farrakhan.
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Obviously this lady was seeking to cash in on the right wing outrage GFM grift, but she missed out on an opportunity to learn Spanish. She could have learned a few words, asked the kids to teach her, etc. I eavesdrop on Korean people all the time and nod along like I know 😅
A school bus driver in Pennsylvania was fired for putting up a sign asking students to speak English
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A subway conductor was beaten and robbed of her train keys while on the job in Brooklyn. The victim, a 31-year-old woman, was leaning out of a train car on the southbound A and C trains platform at the Hoyt St.-Schermerhorn St. station in Downtown Brooklyn when the thief
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I keep saying that earnest liberals should join the police instead of working for “community non profits” but no one listens to me
to some extent a lack of Republicans in academia is ideological discrimination, to some extent it’s sorting. You don’t see a lot of liberals trying to be cops or a lot of conservatives trying to be college professors
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My piece on Hoboken's Vision Zero program. Is it applicable to bigger cities? (link in reply)
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Meanwhile actually native American Indians laugh. Or cry.
We’ve gone from “Somali immigrants aren’t real Americans” to “second-generation Indian-Americans aren’t real Americans” to “Italians and Eastern Europeans and Jews who came through Ellis Island aren’t real Americans” all the way to “the literal Pilgrims aren’t real Americans.”
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To be clear I will provide a lane for commercial deliveries around my private helicopter pad.
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Like if I bought a helicopter and demanded my block be reserved from my helicopter parking, why would anybody be okay with that? My block has 200 residents and there are maybe 30 parked cars taking up the majority of public space. Make then move. I have a helicopter!
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Like those 10 people act shocked that I object to their using public space for free for their cars. Yeah in my ideal world they're the losers. And then everybody else can win. I'm not pretending everybody wins. I'm willing to gore their ox.
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All these benefits for the removal of like a dozen parking spaces Oh, 10 out of those 12 people _wil_l object vociferously. And for cause! But those 10 selfish "I demand free parking but only for cars" car owners shouldn't determine the city we Iive in.
As Paris keeps showing the world, the moment we stop treating neighborhood streets as exclusively places to move and store cars, and start designing them as places to live, everything changes... cooler blocks, safer streets, cleaner air, stronger community, & real public space.
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From a reliable source: The dream: cops don't respond to aideds [people who need help] and EDP [mental cases]. The reality: EMS [paramedics] has a backlog of 227 jobs [calls] in Queens on a Monday afternoon so cops are transporting people to the hospital in police cars.
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New "Hardcore History with Dan Carlin" just dropped. Those who know, will be thrilled.
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Breaking news: After two years post-retirement, the NYPD confirmed my education. Spoiler alert....BA in History. Next time, just call. #Thefinestunfiltered
In this clip I explain why it is significant that the upper echelon of the NYPD was running our educational records in 2024, 2 years post retirement from the NYPD.
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