The NYPD spent $150 Million *extra* last year to catch people who weren't able to afford to pay the subway fare. They owed just $104,000.
$150 million could buy free fares (at going rate) for 95,000 poor New Yorkers per year.
Instead four people shot, including an officer.
Student protesters in Colorado demanding gov't do something about school shootings are being monitored by the state's intelligence command center, CIAC, per doc I obtained.
Today students all over Colorado walked out of school to protest gov't inaction: https://t.co/bX4RLu2vcX
Many Americans may not realize that “a meaningful fraction of homicides in the US are police killings.”
Officers killed at least 1,192 people in 2022.
That's higher than the number of Americans killed in mass shootings:
https://t.co/uB7wRBV3ja
The US military-industrial complex produces more greenhouse gasses than 167 countries and has higher per capita emissions than *all* countries.
New from me: https://t.co/iKccVPoR39
Whenever I see APD body cams, I think of Oscar Cain, organizer in the successful CamsOnCops campaign. Many criticized it as a worthless reform; I thought it could be marginally useful victory. Until Oscar was murdered by a cop who had turned his cam off.
https://t.co/CkjpgX7iTx