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Hochul’s “new” idea has been done before!

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By: Scoop Stanton

Well the Governor of New York wants to have cops patrolling the New York City subways on every train in the city overnight. In the immortal words of Marko in Taken: “Good luck.” This idea is not new. How do I know? Because 28 years ago, my first assignment was the Bronx Transit Task Force (BTTF). This was one of the worst details in the NYPD. The people who were sent here were: rookie cops, rookie bosses and screw ups! Cops with Highway, Mounted and Harbor were not looking to transfer here. People weren’t using “hooks” to get this detail. You worked from 8p to 4a or 10p to 6a. You had one cop with a schedule to ride trains up and down the line. If you got a break here or there or got a summons or call for service, you could get off the train, and catch a fare beater or something. Glamourous it was not.

Now; here’s why it will not work. Hochul wants two cops on each train. Not only is that expensive, that’s near impossible. Cops are leaving in droves and nobody is signing up to take the test! Next. When an MoS has a “collar.” The mope wont be charged because DA’s like Alvin Bragg won’t prosecute most crimes. Add to the fact that Bragg and company has no problem going after cops! Then, there bail reform which has been a disaster so nobody spends time on Rikers Island! There is no consequences for criminal actions in New York State! So the cops that you do hire will “coop” in the back rooms, solving nothing. And where is Governor Hochul going to get the money for all those cops!? Oh yeah, from the congestion pricing! If that doesn’t work, she can add a 100% tax on the U Haul trucks going one way!

Enough!

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To the men and women of the Los Angeles City Fire Department: we love you and we support you 100%! Thank you for all you do!

With that being said, the rank and file are having a hell of a time. With fighting a fire in the seventh parallel of hell to dealing with leadership that want to disrupt the cohesion and uniformity that is the LAFD.

The Assistant Fire Chief for the Los Angeles City Fire Department, Kristine Larson says in the clip that people want first responders to your house that look like you! WTF! We would love if Barry Allen aka The Flash responded every time, but again; nobody cares except these mental midgets! Then Chief Larson defends the fact that most women do not have the upper body strength as most men to carry a 180-pound person out of a fire. Chief Larson’s response: “He got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.” Nice. How about: “Women in the Los Angeles Fire Department train to carry your husband out of a building on fire!”

Nothing about faster response times, firefighter safety, better tactics, better means for saving lives, fire prevention, or things that the LAFD is responsible for. Nope its race, gender, sexual orientation all day every day!

The Man You Don’t Know

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Like I always say: “Things happen for a reason.” Long story short I had the pleasure to talk with movie director Christoper Martini. And like everyone else I meet through the family, Chris couldn’t have been any nicer. He is the director of the movie The Man You Don’t Know. A documentary movie of people who met Donald Trump saying what a wonderful human being he is. Way before he rode down that escalator, his acts of kindness to people were legendary. For every one unverified bullshit story about Trump, there are a thousand verified stories of kindness with “The man from Queens.”

Martini’s movie is in theaters. But; you wouldn’t know it. It seems like movie theaters are either not showing it, showing it when there is low turnout with movie goers or even block seats in theaters so movie goers have crummy reserved seats which will turn away movie goers. If I was the studio, theater, or anyone vested in the movie, I would be pissed. This is money lost. Politics or not, people are losing money! IF The Man You Don’t Know was a bomb like The Apprentice then it would be pulled from the theaters! Half the country love Donald Trump. Why not let the consumer decide!

We are flying down a slippery slope of censorship! Social media is not a platform for free speech. People like us are shadowbanned, have their content removed and sometimes just straight up banned from the platform. On Tiktok, I read an endorsement for Donald Trump. 8 hours and I get only 300+ views!? That’s why we need to support independent media and support one another. We need to defend free speech, no matter how awful the speech is!