Just a reminder that, at least as of 2020, the NYPD alone is in the top 30 military budgets in the world when compared to full countries. They spent $10,900,000,000 (that's 11 billion if you don't wanna count the zeroes out).
Are they funding a RoboCop program or something? 11 billion. WTF?!
It's seemingly closer to $6b for that year, which is obviously a ton of money, but considering they employ north of 50,000 people, if each person costs them $75,000/yr that's already $3.75b. NYC spends $2b on just their department of sanitation. It's a city with like 8.5m people, everything costs crazy amounts of money.
https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2021/05/NYPD.pdf
https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2021/05/DSNY.pdf
And the DSNY has an entire city to clean.
Everybody produces waste. But you only have a small fraction of the population being criminals.
Plus they gotta pay the hundreds of overtime hours "worked" by each cop every month. These guys are so dedicated that they work 26 hours a day, 8 days per week.
Yes. However, it was decommissioned. My guess is that the prototype was so successful at being large, slow, and generally unhelpful that it threatened police jobs and by extension the police union.
LAPD is over a billion and they don't even serve the vast majority of LA. LASD does most of it (though they do a really bad job of it).
It's what happens when you have incredibly rich people living right next to the incredibly poor.
Wall St investors actually have to be in close proximity with the janitors whose lives they're ruining with maximizing profit. We can't have the proles getting any ideas about fighting back...
Shouldn't have [checks notes] exercised their rights.
A couple of years ago I interviewed a guy living in SF who wanted to come over to Norway, to work as a software developer. I asked him why he wanted to make the move and he went on about how he had to get outta there, how he had lost all faith in the country and did not see a good future for himself if he stayed.
At the time I thought to myself that he was being a bit dramatic, but the more I read about how the US is treating its people these days the more I think understand what he was on about.
He made the move, btw.
Those that can leave are the lucky ones.... Some of us are too "worthless" for other countries to accept so we're stuck here...
Whether it's income requirements or specialized industry/educational requirements, "uneducated" poor scumbags like myself are stuck in this bat shit crazy country... I wish I could leave.
I think I might've had a hard time not judging him for sharing that in an interview. Good on you for not.
This is why I moved. People look at me like I have 4 heads when I describe some things.
I hope these reports are taken very seriously.
But they won't though.
Sad but true
Taking a page out of the IDF playbook. (Unsurprisingly).
I mean none of them were r*ped or summarily executed so they must still be on the first page. Lol
Fascist pigs.
Just like the iSSraeli war criminals they're defending
That is pretty messed up.
Yes show an entire generation what unchecked police forces do at an early age so its nice and memorable so they come after you and dismantle you when they come to power.
Like spraying people with fire hoses in the 1960s?
It's on us to make sure these protestors get elected. Them coming to power is no more guaranteed than it was with hippies.
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The laaaaannnnnd of the freeeeee...
The NYPD is committing some crimes... Just like the iSSraeli fascists they're defending.
Of course they did, fucking ACAB assholes.
Wow it’s such a low bar and yet somehow the police always manage to sneak under it
College kids discover what it's like to be a poor Black man😂
This isn't because they're protesters. This is just how cops treat all prisoners. Fucking pigs.
Students losing their Constitutional Rights? Quick! Shoot up an Elementary School so I can PRETEND to care about the Constitution Again!
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