Comment on NYPD’s Raid on Columbia Cost Hundreds of Thousands in Overtime Alone. The Crackdown Will End Up Costing Millions.

Therealgoodjanet@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t worry, it’s a drop in the bucket of the NewYork Militarys Police Departments 11 Billion dollar budget. (a reduction since last year)

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  • TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For some perspective, the entire United States Coast Guard, which employs 43k active duty and 8k reservists, operates 210 aircraft, 245 cutters (ships), 1500+ small boats, spread out over the whole world, completing missions from environmental mishap response, captain of the port in warzones, aids to navigation, drug interdiction, border patrol, law enforcement, disaster response, and, of course, search and rescue, has a budget only around 2 billion more than that.

    Makes you wonder where all that funding for one police department is going.

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• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But didn’t you see the Truth Social posts? Many in this peaceful protest had potentially dangerous things! Nevermind that none of it happened.

  So the cops had to bring guns.

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