Mark Pine

Opinion: Email from Mark Pine to the NYPD Transit Precincts.

June 21, 2022. 

Greetings NYPD Transit Police,

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/transit-housing/transit.page

I’m a civilian. 

I don’t drink. 

I don’t smoke. 

I don’t party. 

I don’t have a criminal record. 

Some people I grew up with paid various law enforcement to sabotage my web marketing clients. 

I have my issues with law enforcement but not with NYPD Patrol Police. 

Even though sometimes the higher ranking law enforcement has NYPD Patrol Police try and crash into me and pick fights with me, I don’t fall for it. 

I’m not trying to make a bad situation worse. 

Law enforcement pays civilian women and men, regular people in plain clothes, to try and pick fights with me. 

Plus, people blow weed smoke at me and then shove their phones in my face. 

I have received so many tickets in the New York City subway I have lost count. 

I have also received tickets riding a bicycle and on New York City buses. 

If I had to guess, I’ve received about $3,000 in tickets. 

Thankfully I could pay them all because of my student loans.

I’m a full-time student at Baruch College.

I’m a journalism major. 

In my spare time, I’m trying to launch startups. 

I cold call hedge funds asking for money. 

I read that NYPD transit cops now have to work in the subway alone without a partner. 

https://abc7ny.com/nypd-subway-crime-transit-patrols-eric-adams/11984951/

In my opinion, that is the worst policy I have ever heard in my whole life. 

In my opinion, the NYPD is doing a good job of keeping Manhattan safe. 

I’m not sure about the other boroughs because I’m not there. 

I just read that the yearly budget for New York City is about $100 billion. 

There should be security cameras and panic buttons inside every subway car. 

Patrol Police should travel at least two at a time or more. 

NYPD Transit Police traveling by themselves is a bad idea. 

Sometimes I feel like people purposely try to run New York City into the ground. 

A real money manager could do a lot better with $100 billion than the current leadership of New York City is doing. 

Anyone working in law enforcement in New York City who carries a weapon should earn a starting salary of $200 thousand annually. 

I believe that New York City should incentivize developers to create more high rises in Queens and offer New York City employees the opportunity to live in the city for below-market rents. 

How will you ask someone to protect a city they can’t afford to live in? 

It makes no sense. 

Regardless of what is going on, I always treat all NYPD Patrol Police with the utmost respect at all times. 

Do I think that people I know pay law enforcement in New York to harass me?

Yes. 

Do I blame NYPD Patrol Police for that?

No. 

Thank you for keeping us safe while the city is being run haphazardly. 

Sincerely, 

Mark Pine