Voters approved a statewide measure requiring Kansas City to spend at least 25 percent of its general revenue on police. It’s the only city in the state with no control over how it’s policed.
I just checked, in Helsinki, Finland (my instance’s location), 25% of the city budget (~1,25B€) would cover the police expense for entire country and more (~900M€).
Here police is managed by the state but I tried to make things comparable.
And I don’t believe the police is extremely underfunded there.
Is the US police driving tanks or wtf?
What’s important is that it’s military hardware that they don’t need and which reinforces their toxic mindset of being at war against certain neighborhoods, ethnicities, income brackets, and political ideologies.
The importance is in the mind of the person who knows more about armaments and wants to flex that on other people. This happens nonstop in gun control debates, as if you need the technical knowledge of a gunsmith to debate the regulation of lethal force.
Urban police have a fuck ton of high tech equipment, high pay, and unlimited overtime (because the cities politically can’t stop them from taking it). They also have frequent legal costs because they keep violating citizens’ rights.
I just checked, in Helsinki, Finland (my instance’s location), 25% of the city budget (~1,25B€) would cover the police expense for entire country and more (~900M€).
Here police is managed by the state but I tried to make things comparable. And I don’t believe the police is extremely underfunded there. Is the US police driving tanks or wtf?
Yep. They literally are 🤬
Armored carriers, helicopters. Those helicopters range for $5-20M each.
That’s an M113 (variant), an APC (armoured personnel carrier) is nowhere near a tank.
That’s a distinction without importance.
What’s important is that it’s military hardware that they don’t need and which reinforces their toxic mindset of being at war against certain neighborhoods, ethnicities, income brackets, and political ideologies.
The importance is in the mind of the person who knows more about armaments and wants to flex that on other people. This happens nonstop in gun control debates, as if you need the technical knowledge of a gunsmith to debate the regulation of lethal force.
Urban police have a fuck ton of high tech equipment, high pay, and unlimited overtime (because the cities politically can’t stop them from taking it). They also have frequent legal costs because they keep violating citizens’ rights.