Can Photographers Stop Hating Tripods, Please?

For most of my life as a photographer here in NYC, I've been told to never have a tripod around. The reason: It's illegal to have a tripod in public unless you have a permit to do so. And that's how photographers have been making images for years without them. We, photographers, helped make the public and the law think of tripods as the #1 enemy - that when they went down on the ground, we were already professional photographers making images. The make up artists, lights, and all tha...