Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott

Comment preview: My uncle was NYPD in the south Bronx for 20 years so I've heard about a million truely unbelievable stories, but heres a good one: So he he trying to arrest this guy and it gets physical and a fight ensues. My uncle eventually subdues him but ended up disl ....


Comment preview: One of my college friends is an NYPD cop in the Bronx. [A cop with a master's degree in journalism from NYU, no less. I'll still never understand how she made the decision to become a cop, but anyway....] She has frequently referred to getting a certain ....


Comment preview: >Ny is full of duchebag cops on a power trip. I'm a minority from the South Bronx in NYC and I can confirm. All of my closest male friends have similar stories. They've been roughed up for talking back, refusing to stop bouncing a basketball in front of ....


Comment preview: I'm impressed you were able to find that one sentence in all of that. While it's an interesting article, it barely speaks about the NYPD and I'm not even sure what they mean by it. Of course the NYC pension system pays out more money to retired cops than a ....


Comment preview: NEW YORK. THE CITY THAT [GETS BEAT WITH ITS OWN SHOE](http://youtu.be/fpbD6W7YT5A?t=2m11s). A CESSPOOL OF MIDWESTERN TRANSPLANTS PRETENDING TO BE METROPOLITAN, 4TH GENERATION IMMIGRANTS PRETENDING BRIGHTON BEACH IS MOSCOW, A FEW NATIVES PRETENDING A 200 SQ ....


Comment preview: >The police say McMillan elbowed Officer Grantley Bovell in the face on March 17, 2012. OWS activists had gathered in Zuccotti Park (the OWS encampments there were evicted the previous November) and the police started to make arrests. McMillan claims th ....


Comment preview: His name is Patrick guys, we're good. http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/qzn67/remember_patrick_a_year_ago_some_nsfl_with_good/c41qxgg :Edit: I should include the guy who got mauled is named David Villalobos: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/22/bron ....


Comment preview: You are assuming that this poor person is upwardly mobile--that he is able to get a better education, or a better job, etc. However, that is not the case for most poor people. If this is the case, a small disposable income will never add up to much through ....


Comment preview: Best tip for Subways is to learn how to read the map: http://images.nycsubway.org/maps/calcagno-2010-06-28c.gif http://www.mta.info/maps/images/subway_2400_2853.jpg So, on the map...the white dots are stops for local and express lines (the only stops for e ....


Comment preview: Well, since you insist NYPD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Amadou_Diallo > "The shooting of Amadou Diallo occurred on February 4, 1999, when Amadou Diallo, a 22-year-old immigrant from Guinea, was shot and killed by four New York City Police ....


Comment preview: NYC cabbie here. Probably the guy who took me on a really long fare to the Bronx that was originally supposed to be a roundtrip from Manhattan to the Bronx and back. Nice trip, right? The guy gets to his apartment and we trade numbers in case I have to mov ....


Comment preview: This article is short on details but there a couple of major problems: 1) This was a thoroughly planned gun buy. The target had been under surveillance a long time AND had already sold guns to undercover officers. Trouble is, they decided to drive to a pea ....


Comment preview: Crime rates were indeed at their highest in the city in 1990. Despite this, more visitors and tourists than ever were coming to the city. I ll do my best to give you a look at how the New York City tourism industry actually flourished during this time, and ....


Comment preview: First of all, I don't think this article is truereddit worthy at all. Like, not even a little bit. It's not well researched, it's absurdly biased, there's hyperbolic attack language in the first paragraph, and it's not even particularly well written. Hell, ....


Comment preview: I miss being a little kid. I miss getting out of school at two-thirty and coming home and wreaking havoc and getting into ridiculous fights with my little brothers and sisters, over whose turn it was to pick out a TV show or who was up next to play Nintend ....