isn't it typical for crime rates go down an the end of the year?

my point

the BS tickets they write, as stated in the OP

is why people are protesting

we're tired of being fucked with for no reason

if it's strictly to generate revenue, to employ this many officers

then, IMO, stop writing the BS tickets and layoff some officers

= revenue problem solved

Gary Webb already told you who the drug dealers are

let me know when we win the drug war

the general point, that I think you're missing

is the impression that they aren't doing their job as they normally do

yet NYers are going on with life as normal

and there isn't anarchy, The Purge, etc...scenarios playing out

it should make you question what the fuck they were doing the whole time anyway