ladythatsmyskull:cooltrainerzero:toxic-spill:whyyoustabbedme:Some think my number was hyperbole, it&

ladythatsmyskull:cooltrainerzero:toxic-spill:whyyoustabbedme:Some think my number was hyperbole, it’s not here’s the source https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/18/new-york-city-has-more-millionaires-than-any-other-city-in-the-world.htmlSpending Hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to catch people committing $3 crimes. So that tax payers can pay millions to put them through the legal system and eventually jail them<<<<<<<<<< It’s all about control.  The wealthy want the lives of the working class to be regimented entirely to maximize value extraction.  You deviate from their plans, you either get hammered back into line or flat-out enslaved by their prison-industrial complex.They could prevent the crime by staying in sight. So I guess it wasn’t that important.If the police were really acting in the interests of public safety and not revenue then they wouldn’t hide. In San Diego they do something similar. They hide on highway 805 South behind trees and bushes waiting for unwary drivers to motor past. They could be out on the open as a deterrent to unsafe driving, their presence causing people to travel more carefully. By hiding they are standing by and allowing people to break the law and operate in an unsafe manner in order to create fines and revenue for the city.NBD you say? Sure. Maybe don’t speed. But the police, if you drive a certain kind of car or you are a certain profile, pull you over for going 68 mph in a 65 mph zone. But they don’t hide in La Jolla and tow away the cars of the wealthy. They certainly hesitate to pull over the car of a person with wealth. The 805-S ramp heads down south to the other side of the tracks. This is an area where people are more likely unable to pay fines, have other unpaid fines overdue and at least not be able to take time off work to contest the ticket. Getting your only transportation taken means 500-plus dollars getting it back if, and that’s a big if, you can afford to pay it within a few hours. Impound fees are huge and compounded daily and lots of people end up abandoning their cars or going into debt retrieving them.This sort of behavior serves the interests of the wealthy in another way as well. The wealthy dont like to pay taxes and they spend a huge amount of resources(not to them, certainly, but relative to total individual political spending) on reducing the tax burden they face. But they still want to use public infrastructure for free, and they want it to be in good condition where they use it. So how do they pay for public services without paying taxes? In the most regressive way imaginable of course; they pay for it with fines.So what you see here is cops deliberately making public transit more dangerous and more stressful for most of the ppl using it, so they can issue more fines, so rich people can still have those services without having to pay for them through taxation. -- source link

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