Lot of talk about the cops in the Hamptons, and that's a great time to bring up the absolutely insane levels of corruption that's been uncovered inside the Suffolk County Police Department en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk...
Also fun to talk about the culture of drunk driving in the Hamptons, where everything is really far apart, there's zero public transportation and Uber and other ride hailing services are essentially banned.
i lived there when there was this whole scandal of high school students beating up hispanics because the county sheriff made a policy of running an immigration status check on anyone who reports a crime and it only ended when they beat up an indian guy on a green card whom they thought was mexican.
if you remember the samantha bee daily show bit from maybe ten years ago about long island secessionists, that was filmed in a bar about ten minutes from where i lived.
Reminds me of the quotes when Paul Pelosi got a DUI in Napa, where the other rich people there/in SF were saying that the police just normally help you get home safe without giving you problems for having one too many glasses of wine
i lived there when there was this whole scandal of high school students beating up hispanics because the county sheriff made a policy of running an immigration status check on anyone who reports a crime and it only ended when they beat up an indian guy on a green card whom they thought was mexican.
Good God.
When people talk about "Sanctuary Cities" the opposite of this is what it's supposed to mean: the community is safer because even undocumented people feel they can call the cops, wait with an accident victim for an ambulance, etcetera, without fear of deportation.
