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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Food for thought......

[twitter]https://twitter.com/tolmanbrett/status/1707798732291637440[/twitter][/quote]
I’ll spare everyone: right winger starts from a right wing lie (DeFuNd ThE pOlIcE) and it goes from there. Nothing connects to anything and if the guy was decently bright he’d have figured out how his entire screed about crime is basically about the police not doing their jobs well.

LAPD’s budget is $1.9 billion. That’s 16% of the city’s annual budget. If you count their benefits and pensions, the budget is $3.15 billion and that’s 26.8% of the annual budget. https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2023/04/18/karen-bass-increases-lapd-budget-by-63/#:~:text=The%20LAPD%20currently%20operates%20on,26.8%25%20of%20the%20overall%20budget.

The Chicago Police Department’s budget was increased by $64 million to $1.94 billion. https://news.wttw.com/2023/01/02/sparing-residents-tax-hikes-months-election-chicago-s-2023-budget-takes-effect#:~:text=The%20Chicago%20Police%20Department%27s%20budget,a%20total%20of%20%241.94%20billion.

NYPD’s budget for 2024 is $5.44 billion dollars, which is actually a cut of 88.1 million, but I don’t think five and a half billion dollars is really a tight budget. https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2023/03/NYPD-1.pdf

At some point maybe we could perhaps entertain revisiting how the police police. For this kind of money you’d think that there be some active police work. [/quote]

Case in point to support the piece you dismiss....

[quote]A teenager accused of intentionally driving a stolen vehicle into a bicyclist in Las Vegas, killing him, told a police officer after his arrest that he expected he would be out of custody in 30 days because he was a juvenile.

“It’s just ah ... hit-and-run,” the teen said after the Aug. 14 crash, according to a police arrest report released Monday. “Slap on the wrist.”[/quote]

https://apnews.com/article/bicyclist-killed-teens-vegas-murder-charges-1374bf01db9701ef10cb6b3fe306dbf3[/quote]

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