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These days? Please be specific, when was the NYPD not like this? Unless you're counting when the mob controlled the NYPD as separate from people with clout.

Here's a poster from 1887: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Citizen_asking_Mayor...

You're right, of course. New York (and other major cities) has always corrupt as fuck.

A link to a prior tweet speculates that the owner of the car is a city employee.

The NYPD union has negotiated an exemption from the requirements that most city employees have to live in the city (along with teachers and firefighters IIRC.)

I think this should be revisited in the next contract negotiation.

That's how everything works these days.