My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works
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Re: My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works
#2The NYPD has a budget for spying on people in other countries. State power is weird.
Re: My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works
#3Ending qualified immunity and civil forfeiture are ideas whose time has arrived.
Even with bipartisan support for stopping these unconstitutional practices they have enjoyed surprising staying power through different administrations.
Re: My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works
#4I've lived here a long time and come to the realization through observation that the NYPD operates like a private security force for capital. Their primary concern is to defend private property, the people themselves come second. The "community outreach" they do is just enough to keep us from getting accusatory.
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#6The NYPD has a budget for spying on people in other countries. State power is weird.
Strictly speaking, that is not in their budget.
Comes from anonymous donors [1]. Nothing strange about that.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/nyregion/terrorism-nypd-i...
Re: My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works
#7This is why we need civilian oversight of every police department. Cops are generally too corrupt and/or too incompetent to investigate their own. They've proven their inability to hold themselves accountable for their actions, so it's up to the rest of us to do it.
Re: My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works
#8The NYPD has a budget for spying on people in other countries. State power is weird.
For those curious who didn't know about this (like me):
>With offices in 11 foreign capitals and an unpublished budget, the ILP’s far-flung counterterrorism cops operate outside the authority of top U.S. officials abroad, including the American ambassador and the CIA station chief, who is the nominal head of U.S. intelligence in foreign countries.
>The ILP is supported by private donors through the New York Police Foundation, which won't say how much it has given the NYPD, beyond a sentence on its Web page that it sought to raise $1.5 million for the program in 2010. The NYPD itself won't say whether any of its annual $178 million budget for intelligence and counterterrorism goes to posting detectives in Paris, London, Madrid or other posh capitals.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/11/nypds_fore...
Re: My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works
#9I've lived here a long time and come to the realization through observation that the NYPD operates like a private security force for capital. Their primary concern is to defend private property, the people themselves come second. The "community outreach" they do is just enough to keep us from getting accusatory.
>Their primary concern is to defend private property, the people themselves come second.
And of course the more private property one has, the better the protection...
Re: My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how NYPD impunity works
#10I've lived here a long time and come to the realization through observation that the NYPD operates like a private security force for capital. Their primary concern is to defend private property, the people themselves come second. The "community outreach" they do is just enough to keep us from getting accusatory.
This is true of every police department, not just the NYPD.