New York Hospitals Are a Shoo-Show

Every time you sneeze thewrong way, big money makers and campaign doners in rich neighborhoods will get pised off and retaliate against politicians that the police try to collect fines from them. So instead, police spend their time targeting poor, politically disorganized people. For whatever reason, they can just tank a hole in the budget by slacking on collecting their precious fines and missing their quotas or by just refusing to collect fines at all. Crucial part of this story, which isn't part of the conversation yet, is something that i mentioned in my short viteo about inequality. The wealthiest people and corporations have effectively used their bargaining power for the last forty years or so to pay