<story><title>What I learned from an unfortunate incident with the NYPD</title><url>http://www.nickfarr.org/2014/02/what-i-learned-from-an-unfortunate-incident-with-the-nypd/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chimeracoder</author><text>&amp;gt; “Is that a Muslim or Hipster beard?” by a crew of three NYPD officers in Times Square.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m very curious to hear the full story behind this one.&lt;p&gt;On a separate note - I used to work in Chelsea[0]. Two or three days of the week, as I was leaving the subway, I would see NYPD questioning and&amp;#x2F;or frisking a young, black man or women. I saw this happen for months, and never &lt;i&gt;once&lt;/i&gt; was the person being questioned&amp;#x2F;frisked white, east Asian, or any other race.&lt;p&gt;Oh, and by the way:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The main I didn’t file any kind of report or move forward at all was that I don’t have badge numbers.&lt;p&gt;NEVER ask a police officer for his&amp;#x2F;her badge number. Look for it and try to memorize if you want, but don&amp;#x27;t let them know you&amp;#x27;re trying to learn it. I know someone who ended up doing ~18 months in prison for doing exactly this. (The official charge was &amp;quot;obstruction of justice&amp;quot; and&amp;#x2F;or &amp;quot;resisting arrest&amp;quot;, but that&amp;#x27;s basically all he actually did. Once it&amp;#x27;s clear to the cops that you&amp;#x27;re looking to report them, they&amp;#x27;ll do everything in their power[2] to punish and discredit you).&lt;p&gt;[0] Affluent, primarily white, gentrified (former) gayborhood, for those unfamiliar with NYC.&lt;p&gt;[1] This is &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; the same as the NYPD standing by the tables asking people to let them look through their bags (which you &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; refuse, by the way!)&lt;p&gt;[2] And possibly even things &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; in their power</text></comment>
<story><title>What I learned from an unfortunate incident with the NYPD</title><url>http://www.nickfarr.org/2014/02/what-i-learned-from-an-unfortunate-incident-with-the-nypd/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdl</author><text>Part of the irony here is that Nick is one of the most respectable, least threatening, most &amp;quot;establishment&amp;quot; people I know -- he&amp;#x27;s worked in banking&amp;#x2F;gov security, and his goal in life is to be a CPA for startups.&lt;p&gt;If someone like that is getting fucked with by the biggest gang in NYC, you know there&amp;#x27;s a problem.</text></comment>