Why didn’t he cut any of NYPD’s draining (and harmful) budget. Wtf?
Police have a lot of leverage power.
Almost all police are part of some form of union, and they have the ability to say “fuck you, we’re not going to respond to emergency calls if you don’t give us what we want”
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aaaaaaand they’ll use that tactic to force cities not to implement alternatives to police, like qualified, unarmed, de-escalation trained mental health experts that handle certain situations better than cops, so police retain a total monopoly over state violence and decisions about if someone should be arrested or not… which then lets them keep their bargaining power to do it all over again.
Cut their funding in half and see how much power they have.
They are superfluous. That’s kinda the point. We don’t need them to respond to calls. Give half their funding to other people without guns to respond to calls.
We don’t need them to respond to calls
Exactly, the last time the NYPD went on strike, crime went down lmao
Crime didn’t go up last strike
In contrast to the Boston Police Strike of 1919, and the Montreal strike of 1969, there was no surge of crime or unrest.
I’m taking about 2015.
Both say life wasn’t affected much. Now that they’re thrutful is another story…
