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You like train wrecks? Should have been in Huntington today near Hecksher Park where the Suffolk County Police had NO PLAN to handle the traffic on 25A after they shut it down for a parade. This was mind-bogglingly stupid.
Heading west on 25A, you were routed to the right at Park. Roughly 7 cops blocked traffic, but waived people in no direction. There were NO detour signs. No police directing the way - AT ALL! So cars followed each other. Once a car took a turn, everyone else would follow - even into residential dead-ends.
So, all of the 25A traffic was left to the local small-street traffic lights, which gave time for about 4 cars to get through. It gets worse - in many instance, cops were at the lights talking to friends or scratching their nutz. At one intersection, I yelled to a cop, who was talking to a friend in car who was hemming up traffic, "Hey - Direct Traffic!" He chose to stare me down with that I-Make-$108,000-minimum-annually glare.
This was the height of incompetence. A 4-year old could have planned that detour better than these baffoons. These are the dips who take criminology as a degree. They were tards when I went to college 20 years ago. Now they take online courses, so they don't even have to think. This is some pathetic incompetent crap!
I agree with the OP's anger, they should be directing traffic. This happens all the time, planned closures and construction and they just leave it up to the lights. Only when someone loses their patience and goes through the light will the cop actually do something, and that something of course is writing the light-runner a ticket.
But as bad as it is, imagine folks who take the bus, who are left in the dark as to where the bus will be stopping. That's what happened with the N22 and N35 buses when Post Ave and Maple Ave were closed for the yearly Westbury street fair, no one at the NCPD or MTA even bothered to put up signs. This detour wasn't listed on the LI Bus service advisory page either. Somehow they can put up notices for bus route detours in the city but Long Island isn't important I guess.
So, you could've avoided the Huntington mess, but for folks who may need a bus in that area they cant avoid it. Of course being a Sunday, there's no buses in Suffolk anyway, since Suffolk still thinks it's the year 1955.
I've written here before about the two-year process of dealing with a drug dealer across the street from my house. Precinct two did absolutely nothing about it. Over a two-year period, I could get nothing more done than a cop car to show up long after the obvious open-air dealing was going on. They'd drive past slowly, as if to say, "We know what's going on in there." But if the dealer has half a brain, they know that after the 30th roll-by nothing is going to happen - and nothing ever happened.
The most fun came when you'd call one day and the person you are speaking with says, "Well, why've you been talking to Ted for the past 8 months? He doesn't even handle those things." Or sometimes they'd say, "Well, I'm sorry but daytime narcotics is on vacation this month, you need to call in the evening." One guy even remarked, "I know you don't think we should get vacations, but..."
This went on until I called my state rep. But very quickly died down. They never got the guy, and he was back to selling within a month. Now I have a new guy selling pills next door. So, Suffolk cops, with an ally in their corner, managed to help grow the drug problem on my street.
I've written here before about the two-year process of dealing with a drug dealer across the street from my house. Precinct two did absolutely nothing about it. Over a two-year period, I could get nothing more done than a cop car to show up long after the obvious open-air dealing was going on. They'd drive past slowly, as if to say, "We know what's going on in there." But if the dealer has half a brain, they know that after the 30th roll-by nothing is going to happen - and nothing ever happened.
The most fun came when you'd call one day and the person you are speaking with says, "Well, why've you been talking to Ted for the past 8 months? He doesn't even handle those things." Or sometimes they'd say, "Well, I'm sorry but daytime narcotics is on vacation this month, you need to call in the evening." One guy even remarked, "I know you don't think we should get vacations, but..."
This went on until I called my state rep. But very quickly died down. They never got the guy, and he was back to selling within a month. Now I have a new guy selling pills next door. So, Suffolk cops, with an ally in their corner, managed to help grow the drug problem on my street.
I hope you never need them either.
Typical of the SCPD, I have a similar situation in my neighborhood. Thankfully, the problem person decided to pack up and move to another state
I remember one time they had a party at the house and their were a whole bunch of teenagers having a fist fight in the street so I called 911 and they were like "oh we don't deal with quality of life issues" and told me to call the town's public safety department (who are unarmed and don't even have peace officer status much less police officer status). Hey SCPD idiot, a fight is a crime in progress (suppose someone pulled a knife?) and not a "quality of life issue"
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Oh, I've had a real need.
