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by nla 502 days ago
Police don't make the laws, we enforce them. Currently if you are in an accident with a pedestrian, and you don't leave the scene, even if there is a fatality, there is nothing more than a summons issued, even if the pedestrian has right of way. NYC is a Democrat supermajority and has been for decades. They just made jaywalking legal, not that I've ever written a jaywalker in over 14 years.

Another NYC rule is that on police streets, where there is a precinct, it is self enforcement and the CO of the command has the final say.

Nothing stopping you from pressing the NYC City Council from changing the rules or the law.

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Police enforce some laws against some people some of the time. The “self enforcement zones” you’re describing don’t make parking on the sidewalk any less illegal — they just mean the cops there can allow themselves to break the law.