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

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• Therealgoodjanet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Congrats guys you wasted millions on a peaceful protest. Who needed that money anyway :|

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  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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• Melkath@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Its fine, its the peaceful protesters and those who support them that pay the majority of the taxes that are spent on silencing the peaceful protesters.

  Its just like a double punishment.

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• istanbullu@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Fascism is expensive

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• applepie@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  We pay them to beat us on behalf of a foreign country committing war crimes...

  If you want to know who rules you...

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• Rapidcreek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I think i saw them bring out the bulldozers out in Amsterdam, so it could have been worse.

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