leftistcrap:sirfrogsworth:Seems like we can totally defund the police because they are already fundi
leftistcrap:sirfrogsworth:Seems like we can totally defund the police because they are already funding themselves. When we were robbed twice within a week last year we got two scribbled reports to give to our insurance and an assurance that they would probably not look into it further. I guess they had an asset seizure to get to and our fear wasn’t worthy of any investigation. To invoke a cliche… Who watches the watchmen?[Police for Profit Report][Image description: A tweet from Nathan Howard (@SmileItsNathan) which reads “Well that’s a statistic.” The tweet is accompanied by a screenshot of a Washington Post headline which reads “Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year” (2019) and a chart from the article titled “Asset forfeitures surpass burglaries: Total annual dollar value of assets seized by federal law enforcement and burglary losses”. The chart shows the dollar value of asset forfeitures in 2019 reaching a decade-long high, surpassing $5 billion, while the dollar value of burglary losses is declining and is below $4 billion. -end ID] -- source link