NYPD’s raid on Columbia University’s student protest likely cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The crackdown will end up costing millions.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/gQ7eY
Congrats guys you wasted millions on a peaceful protest. Who needed that money anyway :|
Don’t worry, it’s a drop in the bucket of the NewYork
MilitarysPolice Departments 11 Billion dollar budget. (a reduction since last year)/e for perspective: you’ve got $11k in your bank account and just got hit with an $8 bill…
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.
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.
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.
Fascism is expensive
