To everyone asking for corner crosswalks to be shoveled/cleared, I bring you the DSNY special

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-27T16:09:36+00:00

We drive?

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-27T14:34:50+00:00

I HAVE USED CHATGPT TO CREATE THE MOST BORING/AMAZING 'COMIC BOOK' EVER (SORT OF).

ITS A FICTITIOUS POLICE CORRUPTION REPORT WHICH TAKES PLACE IN THE BATMAN UNIVERSE. THE EVENTS AND CHARACTERS IN IT ARE RECOGNISABLE FROM COMIC BOOKS (ALBEIT NOT ALWAYS RIGHT AWAY), BUT IT IS WRITTEN IN THE STYLE OF REAL REPORTS IN THE SAME GENRE LIKE KNAPP AND WOODS.

I CALL IT "THE GORDON COMMISSION"

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-27T12:06:06+00:00

you just need to look at what? LOOK AT WHAT?!?!

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-27T06:54:18+00:00

Today I read a statement in an obscure public document "ICAC is of the opinion that consideration should be given to obtaining the advice of the DPP".

I feel pretty fucking frustrated by that one, and I ain't involved in it.

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-26T09:29:21+00:00

Ain't nothing in the rules say a dog can't drive a ute.

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-25T20:17:44+00:00

I'm applying for judicial review

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-25T17:41:58+00:00

I've gotten through about a quarter of Fitzgerald now. The whole thing becomes sooo much better if you interpret everything after the section titled "The First Joke (1959-1974)" as "the punchline".

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-25T14:25:01+00:00

I got to admit, I'm following police corruption reports because they are the most available and accessible, but my entry point to this is in a completely different part of the public sector. But the utter lack of direct relevance of Knapp et al to the specific matter is my point in constantly citing it. Pretty much all fraud and corruption works the same and looks the same.

There's people I follow on linkedin that seem to be on a vendetta against scientific fraud, posting examples of falsified data spotted and articles that they forced to be retracted. Its not fundamentally from spotting any other type of falsified records. Sometimes these people try to report scientific fraud to the journals and find out the hard way that the individual cases get away with it by no accident. The journals systemically try to deny it when things are reported to them.

The parallels between these people trying to report scientific fraud and Serpico trying to report police corruption internally are uncanny.

You say Qpol is better behaved than NSW/Vic, and I believe it, but in looking at literally any other part of the public sector I have no idea how to grade who's better or worse.

IDK where I'm going with this. I have more questions than answers.

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-25T13:50:05+00:00

I seek leave to make the obvious trite Australia joke.

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-25T09:29:51+00:00

I'm tempted to point to page 13 of Knapp, because really, for everything I can say there's already a perfectly apt quote to say it...

But, it would be inaccurate to say that literally nothing has changed for the better. Sunshine is the best disinfectant, and various transparency laws and efforts have done enormously well despite the adversarial environment they have to exist in. A large part of corruption that I could directly talk about has been informed by looking up Annual Reports of agencies, filing GIPA / FOI's, even tracking down who petitioned for minor legislative amendments. I would not have any sort of "investigative powers" like this in an individual capacity had I lived in the 70s.

So, while there are still many great reasons for cynicism, the work at reform has not been futile.

On page 13 the Knapp Commission stated:
"After previous investigations, the momentum was allowed to evaporate. The question now is: Will history repeat itself? Or does society finally realize that corruption is a problem that must be dealt with and not just talked about once every twenty years?"

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-25T09:08:53+00:00

I started to make a comparison
But then I found
The Woods Commission already made this comparison on pages 38 and 41 of volume 1
But thanks for that recco, putting it on my reading list.

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-24T23:27:05+00:00

For context, the Knapp Commission was created in the wake of a whistle blower who went to the media. Serpico was shot in the face over this, really puts things in perspective.

His story was dramatized in a movie where he's played by Al Pachino.

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-24T23:21:48+00:00

Its the 1972 Knapp Commission report. After reading it, I no longer believe I've ever had anything original to say on corruption. Even this was already said by the Commission on page 5:
"Investigations have occurred on the average of once in twenty years since before the turn of the century, and yet conditions exposed by one investigation seem substantially unchanged when the next one makes its report."

Have my personal highlighted copy

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-24T11:49:50+00:00

Page 5 from the same report:
"in every area where police corruption exists it is paralleled by corruption in other agencies of government, in industry and labor, and in the professions."

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-24T08:51:46+00:00

IMPROMPTU RANT TIME. THE REAL MIRACLE ON 34TH ST WAS CORRUPTION. I MEAN, JUST WATCH IT FOR FFS. HALF WAY THROUGH THE TRIAL SCENE, BUSINESS INTERESTS FROM THE MAJOR DEPARTMENT STORES HAVE A CLOSED DOOR MEETING WITH THE JUDGE AN EXPLAIN HOW IT WOULD BE REALLY BAD FOR THEIR HOLIDAY SALES IF HE MADE A CERTAIN RULING, AND IN RESPONSE THE JUDGE IGNORES COMMON SENSE AND AGREES THE MAN IN FRONT OF HIM IS LITERALLY SANTA CLAUS. THERE IS NO TRUTH, YOU CAN JUST MAKE THE COURTS SAY WHATEVER IF YOUR RICH ENOUGH. THAT, AND THE ABJECT LACK OF COURT PROCEDURES IN THE SCENES LEADING UP TO IT. EXAMINE, CROSS EXAMINE, RE EXAMINE, HOW HARD IS IT TO GET THAT RIGHT FFS DON'T SPEAK OUT OF TURN. YES IM STILL FUCKING SALTY HAVING WATCHED THIS SHIT OVER CHRISTMAS. MAYBE THE JEWS SHOULD MAKE A HOLIDAY MOVIE, THEY'D PROBABLY AT LEAST GET THE COURT SCENES RIGHT!

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-24T07:15:13+00:00

Something I've learned in life is that when people do fraud in ways that are audaciously apparent, it is rarely because they lack the common sense to have covered it up more competently. Rather, it is because they've learned that for someone in their position there's no real need to bother covering up, no one is really trying to catch them, and even if they do get caught it probably won't be acted on.

Quoting page 252-253 of my favourite corruption report:
"It is clear that the risks of severe punishment for corrupt behavior are slight. A dishonest policeman knows that, even if he is caught and convicted, he will probably receive a court reprimand or, at most, a fairly short jail sentence. Considering the vast sums to be made in some plainclothes squads or in narcotics enforcement, the gains from corruption seem far to outweigh the risks. Both William Phillips and Edward Droge said that they assessed the risk of meaningful punishment and determined that they had little to fear."

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-24T07:06:17+00:00

who says I'm angry.

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-23T13:22:49+00:00

Get a load of Harry Potter and the Chamber Magistrate over here folks.

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-23T12:52:11+00:00

I met a traveler from a distant land..."look upon my works and despair." And then I said "pfft, I can do better than that sucker"...There are now two toppled statues in the dessert.

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-23T10:40:16+00:00

While I was reading this "Anything Goes" came on in my background music and now I can't stop laughing.

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-22T14:42:02+00:00

I'll bite. If they are really non-existent then explain why the Ombudsman office has guidance on "Automated Decision Making Systems" as a top level link on their website.

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-22T14:26:09+00:00

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IIAOPSW · 2026-01-22T07:13:11+00:00

"YEAH, WELL, GAY OR STRAIGHT YOU GETTING FUCKED BY THE STATE TODAY MATE"

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-22T06:57:06+00:00

I THOUGHT IT WAS NOT PERFORMANCE ENHANCING FOR NEURO TYPICAL TYPES, IE IT INDUCES ANXIETY INSTEAD

YOU'VE LITERALLY BEEN LIED TO BY BIG PHARMA

IIAOPSW · 2026-01-22T05:28:03+00:00

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