This doesn't count money from other funding sources, like state and City coffers as well as the bank they make on the side from civil assets forfeiture.
This is why the Police in Philly have autonomous robot dogs and kids in Philly lack crayons.
Then they further benefit because any settlements or judgments stemming from civil actions against them are paid out of city funds.
So we pay them for bad acts and then pay the fines for those bad acts.
It's really just not a smart system.
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Nevertheless... raw numbers divided by total population is nonsense because it's not at all how those resources are divided.
Funding for services goes disproportionally to white, higher income areas while funding for police disproportionately is spent to police poor Black areas.
Impeach him. There's plenty of time. No reason they can't.
Otherwise don't believe a word they say.
They're not going to actually be responsible. They'll just pretend they are.
The GOP impeaching Trump right now would show the world that even they have limits and stand for competency and integrity in government.
A unified Congress could get it done in days.
But they won't. And this is proof of their bluff.
They want credit without action.
Deny them.
If the GOP cared about America or even the integrity of their party, they'd take the easy choice -- impeach a lame duck President who's gonna be gone in a month anyway.
It would barely speed things up, but the political effect would be massive.
While I give KCS no cookies for writing this too little, too late piece, it's an excellent depiction of journalism's role in directly perpetuating white supremacy.
We STARTED with "Bought a beauty pageant so he could see naked, underaged, teenage girls backstage"
We just pressed on from there.
It's bizarre that anyone thinks there's a limit.
Around the time everyone saw a Presidential candidate drooling over his daughter and the self-proclaimed avatars of family values said "That's our guy" we should have said
"Welp. They believe nothing. Let's move on without them"
As European political parties go, the only people I can think of who are further right than our GOP are maybe UK's Conservatives and Canada's People's Party.
At this point though. I don't really know if it's reasonable to consider the GOP a political party anymore.
They're so absurd and nihilistic and unconcerned with governance that the only thing keeping them viable is their entrenchment in a two party system.
If you are really honest about it, you'll note that even the concept of "pulling oneself up"' implies an economic structure within which one is elevating oneself.
That economic structure is wholly dependent on a government that administrates it.
TBF. If you ignore:
How money retains value
How property is defined
How ownership is secured
How business is incorporated
How trade is conducted
How resources are distributed
How socioeconomic status exists