Let me put it to you this way: I live here. You don't.
But since I'm sure you're not going to leave it at that, do keep reading, please...
FOIA, FOIL, tomayto, tomato. The answer is Google-able. I'll spare you the snarky LMGTFY link.
I'd be inclined to assume that the authorities of a city of 100,000 in Michigan could provide safe drinking water. But those of you who haven't been living in a cave in the Andean Mountains know how well
that worked out.
If there's one thing wrong with this forum software, by the way, it doesn't have nearly enough emoticons to express gut-busting drink-spraying floor-pounding hysterical laughter.
Here, allow me to show you a current example of how the NYPD
crosses their "T"s and dots their "I"s...
AMENDED COMPLAINT against Jordan Bistany, William J. Bratton, Thomas Chan, Paul Ciorra, City of New York, Nicholas Konkowski, George Luti, Keith Penney, James Tuller, James P. O'Neill, Steven D'Ulisse, Sylvester Ge, Timothy Morgan, John Sanford, Jonathan Lipke, Marc Levine, Adrian Santiago...
www.courtlistener.com
The
TL;DR version is that the NYPD is running checkpoints but
calling them "step-out initiatives", thereby side-stepping all the constitutional and legal reporting requirements that come with operating checkpoints, and making it all FOIL (and FOIA, LOL) -proof.
And to the extent that
dangerd said "ask a cyclist in New York how the NYPD crosses their t or dots their i" and you yourself wrote "that cyclist would have to come down here, I wouldn't go to New York City for love nor money", I would like to mention that the tactic being contested in the above linked legal action has been used for almost a decade by the NYPD's HWY, CTTF and ordinary precinct cops to conduct checkpoints to pull over
all motorcycle riders, without cause, and royally screwing up traffic for everyone just to make them hate motorcycles more than they already do, to go on fishing expeditions and not just ticket but impound bikes for silly crap like license plate lamps or missing reflectors.
Being a motorcyclist, I don't think I should have to explain to you folks how I feel about this.
Two summers ago I filed a complaint with IAB about one HWY cop who wrote me a fraudulent summons (in one of those checkpoints that aren't checkpoints, LOL). Thanks solely to beautiful full-HD helmet camera video, IAB had his command strike the summons, but somehow exonerated the officer of any wrongdoing. Talk about crossing those "T"s and dotting their "I"s. Actually, no, wait, they did say they would give the officer instruction on "how to write a better supporting deposition". Seriously. I'll upload the sound clip if you think I'm bull****ing here.
And no, folks on pushbikes aren't faring any better. Every time a motorist kills one here, the NYPD goes on a ticket-writing campaign against...
{drumroll...} bicyclists. Whereupon they receive very meaningful tickets like felony not having a ringy ringy thingy on your handlebar.
I could go on about how the NYPD's systemic corruption and its literal allergy to proper conduct, due diligence and reporting has directly affected my family going back five decades. Truly the stuff of crime dramas. Stuff that's in newspaper articles, legal textbooks, etc. Stuff that if you watched a program about it and you saw "based on a true story" in the ending, you'd be slack-jawed in horrified disbelief. You wouldn't sleep that night, and you'd never trust another cop again. But this is not the place.
So, folks, **** your "T"s and "I"s, your inclinations, your suppositions about evidence, your assumptions, your generally misplaced blind trust.
Oh, and, fly safe.