Students arrested during the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside.
Other students reported that they were beaten by New York City Police Department officers after their arrests and taken to the hospital for injuries before being returned to central booking. Photos of the injuries were provided to The Intercept.
Other students reported that they were held in mouse-infested cells, along with the general population of the jail. The students told the professors that they weren’t given water or food for 16 hours and that at least one student was left without shoes for the same period of time.
Just a reminder that, at least as of 2020, the NYPD alone is in the top 30 military budgets in the world when compared to full countries. They spent $10,900,000,000 (that’s 11 billion if you don’t wanna count the zeroes out).
Are they funding a RoboCop program or something? 11 billion. WTF?!
It’s seemingly closer to $6b for that year, which is obviously a ton of money, but considering they employ north of 50,000 people, if each person costs them $75,000/yr that’s already $3.75b. NYC spends $2b on just their department of sanitation. It’s a city with like 8.5m people, everything costs crazy amounts of money.
https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2021/05/NYPD.pdf
https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2021/05/DSNY.pdfAnd the DSNY has an entire city to clean.
Everybody produces waste. But you only have a small fraction of the population being criminals.
Plus they gotta pay the hundreds of overtime hours “worked” by each cop every month. These guys are so dedicated that they work 26 hours a day, 8 days per week.
I’d love to read a book about the organizational struggles they’ve faced over the years, but I guess that would just be political history… :(
Yes. However, it was decommissioned. My guess is that the prototype was so successful at being large, slow, and generally unhelpful that it threatened police jobs and by extension the police union.
Bravo 👏🏼
Ok the manufacturer was trolling. There’s no way they needed that extra 20 pounds they just wanted it to be 420 pounds.
Pensions
Just the robot dogs for now, but I’m sure they’ll be first in line when the tech is available.
LAPD is over a billion and they don’t even serve the vast majority of LA. LASD does most of it (though they do a really bad job of it).
It’s what happens when you have incredibly rich people living right next to the incredibly poor.
Wall St investors actually have to be in close proximity with the janitors whose lives they’re ruining with maximizing profit. We can’t have the proles getting any ideas about fighting back…
I guess this insane police budget is the reason some of those people got rich in the first place.
Hey.
Someone’s getting rich off of all that tactical equipment.
NYPD officers are bullies with badges.
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I find bully to be an apt description. They habitually belittle, intimidate, or attack people perceived to be weaker than them.
Bastard means unpleasant or despicable. I think that’s somewhat lacking by comparison.
For its schoolyard prevalence alone, I don’t believe “bully” quite illustrates the point, and bastard is far too common, agreed. Whatever happened to santorum, or smeg, etc.? These days, we seem to rely on spitting out derogatory pre-chewed gum, and there’s so much more to English alone — not to mention how many other languages have had cause for coining a phrase or term for whatever moment in particular?
Get creative. Read a book. See the world. Learn to fuck in different tongues. Swear like it was your birthright. (Plot twist: it is.)
Those are certainly more colorful. I use bully for its descriptive accuracy, but your point still stands. The average person knows fewer than one eighth of the words in English language, and use a tenth of that daily. There’s plenty of room for improvement in our insults and condemnations.
Fuck yeah
And New York is not the only place where that’s the case…
Shouldn’t have [checks notes] exercised their rights.
I hope these reports are taken very seriously.
But they won’t though.
Sad but true
How very…Israeli.
Nazisrael.
Ashka-Nazisraeli
Y’all really need to better draw the line between Israel and Jews, because comments like this erode the very important “criticizing Israel isn’t antisemitic” distinction. There’s absolutely no reason to point the finger at Ashkenazi Jews, an ethnic group, in our outrage over genocide committed by the Israeli state.
I get that you’re just doing wordplay, and calling Israel Nazis is fine (even if “Nazisrael” is a bit forced), but calling Ashkenazi Jews “Nazis” is just fucking hateful, and you’re giving ammo to the pro-Israel detractors when you say ignorant shit like this.
Taking a page out of the IDF playbook. (Unsurprisingly).
I mean none of them were r*ped or summarily executed so they must still be on the first page. Lol
Fascist pigs.
Just like the iSSraeli war criminals they’re defending
Yes show an entire generation what unchecked police forces do at an early age so its nice and memorable so they come after you and dismantle you when they come to power.
Like spraying people with fire hoses in the 1960s?
It’s on us to make sure these protestors get elected. Them coming to power is no more guaranteed than it was with hippies.
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The laaaaannnnnd of the freeeeee…
The NYPD is committing some crimes… Just like the iSSraeli fascists they’re defending.
Of course they did, fucking ACAB assholes.
Wow it’s such a low bar and yet somehow the police always manage to sneak under it
Students losing their Constitutional Rights? Quick! Shoot up an Elementary School so I can PRETEND to care about the Constitution Again!
The denied water part seems strange. Most American jails have water fountain toilet combos like this:
That is not a general population holding cell. That is the nicest jail cell I have seen.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that image is a jail for “white collar” crimes or not even in the US
The cell itself is pretty nice and non gen pop but I was more so just using it because it was one of the first pictures that popped up showing one.
The first picture you find ≠ most American jails.
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I’ve been in cells without toilets or water. They’re designed for temporary holding (an hour or so), for things like waiting on transportation or intake, for example.
Yea and even the holding cells have those. Usually behind a half wall where it’s not really private but its sorta blocking your business.
Those sink/toilet combos are what had Dems claiming migrants were “drinking out of toilets”.
