New York Police Department

Review # 666 — perfect.
I have a brother who serves here in JC so believe me when I say I totally respect police officers. They are some of the finest and bravest people I have ever met. But now and then, you do encounter the occasional dumbass who gives cops a bad name.
My aunt was in town and she wanted to visit some fabric stores on 37^th and 38^th Streets. So we dropped her off on 8^th Avenue and waited for her in the car. Now, 8^th Avenue only allows parking for commercial vehicles between 7am and 6pm. So yes, technically we were illegally parked.
Anyway, a ticket agent is giving a ticket to the cars parked behind us. My sister, who was driving, saw the ticket agent and started to move the car to avoid getting a ticket. But before we knew it, the ticket agent ran in front of the car to block my sister from moving. My sister keeps trying to maneuver the car around her, but the ticket agent keeps blocking. So my sister asks her, «Miss, since you haven’t started writing the ticket, can you please let me go?» The ticket agent says, «Sorry, but you were already parked,» and gave my sister a $ 115 ticket. She then told my sister, «If you had moved, the ticket in the mail would have been more expensive.»
Oh, so this dumb bitch was doing US a favor? I mean, whatever happened to common courtesy? It’s cops like MONA LOPEZ, badge # 45 211, that give the NYPD a bad name. And you best believe we are going to fight this, if only to get the fine reduced.

Pretty nice guys, even though a lot of them I saw standing around doing almost nothing except taking pictures for people… or eating ice cream.

Oh genius. There we are at the Starlite Lounge and the beers are a little expensive for our taste so we pop in to chug a Giant Gentleman at the bodega.
Really? You guys had to swerve over in your car like we’re gonna run away or we’re high-​profile coke dealers or… what exactly? And you give Simon an open-​container ticket? And he lives in fucking New Mexico so now he’s supposed to, what, COME BACK on January 13^th to appear before a judge for a case that will likely be dismissed? I mean, I could see approximately five drug dealers from where I was standing. Not that I want them in trouble either, but just like What are you doing?
It was also cool when you didn’t believe I lived in the neighborhood. It’s Crown Heights, not fucking Kuwait or some shit.
And thanks for telling us to enjoy our night and «be careful, this isn’t the safest neighborhood guys». Go back to fucking Long Island, dipshit.

Sorry, men in uniform are not hot when they are creepy dumb asses that stare at every girl that walks by and in my experience, barely do their jobs.

H O T
Men in uniform.
Hubba hubba.

Umm… yeah.

This, my friends, was a quite surprising experience. First off, everything I know about the NY Police department comes from my obsession with the series Law and Order. The cops on that show are really scary. Somehow my wallet was lost/​stolen right before I was to fly back to CA. Strangely, I received a letter from the NYPD stating that they had recovered property of mine, namely a blue wallet. I’m pretty sure it fell out of my purse after I paid for my cab, but someone turned it in not only without using any of my credit cards, but with $ 91 still in it. This reminded me that New Yorkers are fundamentally good. Each item in the wallet was inventoried and a letter with the invoice was sent to the address on my license (luckily family still lives there). I went to 1 police plaza to collect it, and it had not been processed from the precinct yet, so I had to go there and get it. I was able to pick up the wallet but not the money. I had to go back today and get it.
These are my observations about it: it is a huge clumsy organization but when in functions, it functions well. They have spooky shrines everywhere for 911 but overall, when you’re not breaking the law, the NYPD are kind hard working respectful people. I wrote a thank you note to the processing officer and unlike the sketch ball in front of me in line, thanked each person that helped me get my stuff back. Check out my photos to see my wonky visitor pass ID.