After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail
Students arrested during the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside.
Other students reported that they were beaten by New York City Police Department officers after their arrests and taken to the hospital for injuries before being returned to central booking. Photos of the injuries were provided to The Intercept.
Other students reported that they were held in mouse-infested cells, along with the general population of the jail. The students told the professors that they weren’t given water or food for 16 hours and that at least one student was left without shoes for the same period of time.
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.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/04/06/nypd-lieutenant-stripped-of-gun-and-badge-amid-overtime-abuse-investigation/
I'd love to read a book about the organizational struggles they've faced over the years, but I guess that would just be political history... :(
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.
Bravo 👏🏼
Ok the manufacturer was trolling. There's no way they needed that extra 20 pounds they just wanted it to be 420 pounds.
Just the robot dogs for now, but I’m sure they’ll be first in line when the tech is available.
Pensions
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...
I guess this insane police budget is the reason some of those people got rich in the first place.
Hey.
Someone's getting rich off of all that tactical equipment.