LA is the next Summer Olympics host city. Will we be ready?
Compared to Paris, LA has:
👥2x the population
👥👥👥👥👥10x the unsheltered population
🚇1/10 the transit ridership
🚇1/4 the transit vehicles per million people
⚠️3x the road deaths
It’s illegal. It’s also scary AF.
PLEASE check and recheck and confirm that you are registered to vote. Even if you’ve voted 1000 times before and haven’t moved since 2002.
🚁LAPD HELICOPTER AUDIT: FINDINGS
• Hourly cost: $2,916 per flight hour
• ~$50M per year (more than 14 city dept. budgets)
• 61% of time not spent on high priority crime
• Disproportionate time spent in certain communities
• ~762k gal fuel burned/yr
https://t.co/ni5XMmZOxV
how many people does it take to read a non-digital watch?
anyway, if you look up Associated Press photos of the event, you can see his watch reads 8:06pm, which is when the address was televised.
This is the problem with Texas and so many other places in America: Instead of robust services - affordable housing, well-funded schools, access to fresh food, public transit - or infrastructure, the state just dispatches hundreds of cops who ain’t doing shit but racking up OT.