Driver Strikes Pedestrian, Flees; ​“Good Samaritan” Rushes In

Meanwhile no traffic enforcement under the " pedestrian friendly " Elicker administration. The woke politicos consider traffic enforcement to he politically correct

Yet another person hit by a car.
I hope the pedestrian recovers from their injuries. Thank you to the Good Samaritan who rendered aid until the emergency response workers arrived.

Dennis that's because under the Elicker Administration the police are not working and only responding because of the protest to defund the police and black lives matter protest against them this summer, the Mayor has been informed about this and is trusting the Chief who will protect their own instead of voters who witness officers doing nothing daily. The police department is not being held accountable under the Elicker administration

Holy smokes! They Good Samaritan's a total hero!

Change is complex and hard...hopefully it will come out well on the other side. Policing weighs heavily on people of color... I don't know what Mayor Elicker's plan is to for alternative means of traffic control, but there are some new ideas out there that are worth trying.
"Removing police from traffic enforcement may sound revolutionary, but it's not unattainable... Of all the functions that could be separated from the police department, one of the most significant would be the removal of traffic enforcement. Over 24 million people each year come into contact with police during a traffic stop, according to data from the Department of Justice. And traffic stops can be especially dangerous and discriminatory for people of color: Black drivers are 20 percent more likely to be stopped than white drivers, and as much as twice as likely to be searched, according to a study of 100 million traffic stops conducted by the Stanford Open Policing Project. And 11 percent of all fatal shootings by police in 2015 occurred during traffic stops, according to a Washington Post database of police killings.
"It's one of the most common ways we see policing situations unfold into disturbing and scary consequences for over-policed communities," said Jordan Blair Woods, a criminologist and legal scholar at the University of Arkansas School of Law. That's why, Woods said, it's important to consider ways to provide a non-police alternative to traffic enforcement."
"The goal is to make traffic stops about traffic," Woods said of the move to decouple traffic enforcement from police. "And in doing that, address the disparity we currently have in traffic enforcement, disparities that can lead to people of color losing their lives."

I guess if you support respecting the Police and are against Defunding them the STAFF doesn't want to see that response in their Comments.

Dennis - I hope that staff is not preventing people from expresses opposing beliefs or opinions. I think the reason I post my comments so there is not one single opinion expressed.

I respect the police and my encounters with the NHPD have mostly been positive. However I do agree that too much money is spent on policing and providing a pipeline to feed the prison system.
The expectations put on the role of policing is too much, and some that funding needs to be reallocated to in support of the police, so they are not expected to be all things to all people in crisis."

"The argument for defunding, however, is fairly straightforward. It is an argument predicated upon resource reallocation, in which portions of the vast sums of money that get spent on policing — an institution that inflicts demonstrable harm upon many communities of color and poor people — is redirected toward funding for things that would enrich people's lives: housing, health care, job training, food and so on. In a world where people have what they need to live healthy, nourished lives and opportunities to pursue a wide range of dreams and ambitions, whatever "need" people imagine there to be for police would be radically diminished.

So while Republicans (and, sadly, most Democrats) have mangled the central vision of defunding beyond recognition, equating it with anarchy and an invitation to lawlessness, that's not at all what it is. It is a road map and a clarion call for a healthier, more beautiful, more caring, less-punishing society."