Originally published at: New York to pay $13.7m to people beaten by police during George Floyd protests | Boing Boing
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We all know how this is going to go.
The capitalist viewpoint: “It’s cheaper to pay the victims than it is to retrain the police.”
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Let me guess: Eric Adams is opposed to this judgment.
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i had first read the headline as: ny pays police $13.7m to have people beaten. which is also true from a certain perspective.
( and really it’s that people themselves paying via taxes, unless the city administration is going to dock police salaries or something. which they should. which they won’t )
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They get paid a whole lot more than that to beat people, unfortunately.
(emphasis mine)
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yeah. this is more like a bonus i suppose. job well done cops, we’re happy to pay this little bit extra so you can keep doing what you’re doing
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Let’s hope so. Adding 2 digits to that amount, making it an annual payment, and investing it in services to replace the police would be a start. $13.7M is about one thousandth of NYPD’s annual budget
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