They just equate skin color with peace.

Black people exist? Violent. Mobs of white people attacking police and attempting to kill politicians? Peaceful

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The only consequence was that the protests eventually stopped and their budget increased.

If high ranking government officials could be held personally accountable for breaking the law, the world would be a different place. Don't forget this op was commanded by the department cheif.

Have they told the lawsuits to stop resisting?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/14/nyregion/nypd-george-floyd-protests.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/nyregion/nypd-police-protest-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Why? So we can funnel even more money to the police to offset the absolutely absurd insurance premiums cops would have to pay? No thanks. Let's not add a market-tested, for-profit middleman as some kind of 'solution' to a deeply rotten and systemic problem.

Agreed. I strongly believe in unions, and think everyone should have some employment and legal protections that comes with membership in a union. What we need to do is to strip away some of the absurd powers that the police union has. Also, police misconduct should not be investigated by the police force. That should be a separate, state-level organization.

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That will help with a lot of problems.

It doesn't matter who wins the election. The police union runs the city. That's true about every city in America.

So many bad apples you have to wonder if it’s the roots that are rotten

I'd really like to see that, do you have a link by chance?

>I'm not racist, let's help out the less fortunate, sure it's ok to tax me more, wait there's someone who looks scary who just made eye contact with me, can we get a cop over here?

That's spot on!

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Police gets to be violent. Tax payers pay victims. Police carries on as if nothing happened with no consequences for their actions. Status quo remains and no lesson was learned.

So this one incident will cost a little over 6.45($21,500*~300) Million dollars? Is this built into the annual NYPD budget?

He was a progressive in the way a lot of New Yorkers like to think of themselves as progressive - I'm not racist, let's help out the less fortunate, sure it's ok to tax me more, wait there's someone who looks scary who just made eye contact with me, can we get a cop over here?

>We need to bust the police union.

We need to be very careful about this. Breaking the police union will affect other public sector unions, and possibly even private sector unions. IANAL, but I know that police unions are still protected by the different labor and collective bargaining laws.

Yeah people point to bail reform but it’s really the new discovery rules that are the issue.

The way prosecutors played games with the speedy trial clock was fucked up but what we have now clearly isn’t working either.

This is hillarious. Taxpayers have to bail out an out of control police department paid to protect the taxpayers. Bankrupt their pensions first.

Non-paywalled link:

New York Will Pay Millions

Leave Cleveland alone haha

$7 Billion Oops my bad it's now $10 Billion

That will probably depend on the specifics on the case. If the woman was injured when she was pushed to the ground (and for example could not perform her work properly for a week), that can be a problem for the defendant and be a misdemeanor assault.

>pushed a 56-year-old woman to the ground on New Year’s Eve in Manhattan

But if we are being realistic here, they are only prosecuting this because of the hate crime component.