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It’s amazing all this Ray Kelly love. He’s the the head and he should be held accountable for everything. So, under his tenure we have:

1. Incredibly racist and inaccurate training videos on Muslims shown to all cadets, which he said he knew nothing about and then later find out he sat down with the producers and was actually in the video.

2. Related to 1 above. Just straight up spying on Muslims, even using the CIA, to create files on people and in their place of worship, solely based on their religion and without any evidence that such individuals were up to anything at all. Imagine if they did something like that to fundamentalist Christians or Hasidic Jews.

3. Ummmm … his police, months after they were instructed by Ray Kelly to de-prioritize low-level marijuana arrests, straight up kill an 18 year old in his own bedroom for allegedly attempting to sell a dime bag on the street. Straight up murder.

4. The incredible situation we have with people being killed by cars and the police continually, not giving a f—-, while his department issues over 36K criminal summons for freaking cyclists?!?!

Who the F are these people that think Ray Kelly should be mayor?!?!?! The same people who wanted Bernie K for DHS head? Seriously, why isn’t the media piling on more? The only sustained criticism of Ray Kelly I can find is when I listen to democracy now. All these rallies and such are back page news I tell ya!

The inefficient parking story at the bottom is very telling. As much as the Post, etc. may try to displace their aggression onto people who ride bicycles, the real hell for drivers is other drivers (and parkers). We had a group, which since moved away, doing this on our block — and someone got mad enough to circulate a flyer against them.

This goes to show why drivers are easy to incite and cannot be made happy, because there is no way to solve the problem of too many cars in too little space.

Gale Brewer’s bill is well intentioned but should be opposed by pedestrian and biking advocates. It raises the cost of installing and maintaining plazas and bike lanes without any demonstrable benefit commensurate with the cost? If textured pavement is such a lifesaver, why not also require textured sidewalks at all curb cuts and driveways? Cars coming out of a midblock parking garage are a hell of a lot more dangerous than the edges of pedestrian plazas. Why isn’t this being proposed? It’s because the real estate industry will crush a bill mandating costly retrofitting of thousands of driveways and curb cuts.

It is bad policy to make the cost of proven safety improvements more expensive while doing nothing about proven dangers. Brewer is usually smarter than this.

So a guy kills a 14 year old, with an unlicensed vehicle, flees, and refuses a Breathalyzer and is not charged for killing another human, a teenaged human at that.

Wow.

Read the story below that one, a guy who defended himself by killing a “360-pound, machete-wielding home intruder” is getting out of jail after 4 years, and he is getting out EARLY. GAH!