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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 weeks ago

This is the perfect summary of who the police really serve, the wealthy and their property.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It feels like there's some context missing here. Even Chicago police wouldn't just stand a row of cops in front of a Tesla dealer to "protect" it in the middle of the day. One squad and two officers tops would accomplish the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably a legal protest with an overblown police presence because they often get hazard, overtime and off duty bonuses. An hour at a protest can be worth effectively 4 so if a 10 hr protest happens they may actually make a work week of pay.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

An Indivisible protest was planned. This reaction is absurd because Indivisible has always operated within the law.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

They only have so many officers. How many locations can they cover? For how long?

Guerilla forces only need to be lucky once.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In FY2022, the City budgeted for 13,108 sworn officer positions across all funds and all job classifications (including police officers and supervisor-level positions).[1] The CPD budget includes 950 non-sworn positions.

Sheesh

Sourcehttps://www.civicfed.org/civic-federation/blog/chicago-police-department-staffing-analysis

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

What, are they gonna live there?

The building can't run, and we have shows to watch while they make some overtime pay.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

That seems a tad excessive

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

As someone in the Market for a NEW EV seeing this makes me REALLY want a Testla!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is this ai... The STUPID random capitalized WORDS is very youtube-esq title baiting. Very dumb like the comment

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair they usually nail it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Alternatively, they nailed it especially well this time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oh great, SARCASM on the internet with BIG WORDS