NYPD is paying a lot of money
to hide their conversations from the public
Hiii, I just drank a really tasty spinach strawberry smoothie and now I’m sharing my feelings about the NYPD spending a lot of money to encrypt police public radio channels. Onto the news…
News that made me say I’m not that bad at budgeting
The NYPD is paying 390 million dollars to encrypt NYPD public radio channels. The NYPD claims it’s hiding its communications from the public to prevent the “bad guys” from using it. That’s not true. The NYPD is just tired of being outed for being racist. Instead of stopping the racism by abolishing themselves, they would rather spend 390 million dollars to hide their racism from the public. We don’t say all cops are bad for no reason.
NYPD cops have been heard saying they should run over protestors or shoot them during the George Floyd uprisings. Hence, when the NYPD says they want to encrypt messages “to stop giving the bad guys” their plans, what they mean is that they don’t want the public knowing their plans to continue to be a hateful brutal police force. The public are obviously the “bad guys” for not liking the fact that they are being oppressed by cops whose salaries they pay. We the public would be the “good guys” to the cops if we said thank you so much for oppressing us.
As if paying for cops to hide their plotting from us isn’t bad enough, the city is closing the libraries on Sundays and making other budget cuts. If someone were to ask me to pick whether I want more oppression or more time at the library, I would pick less oppression. Not just because I’m a nerd who spent most of their weekends in the library reading books, but because I think libraries are much more useful than police secrets and one should budget for more useful things when they budget, right?
I’ve never claimed to be very good at budgeting, but I would say spending money so cops can keep their mean gossip secret while cutting social services like universal pre-K is pretty bad budgeting. I have spent money on things I don’t need but never have I blown my entire budget on a very expensive safe to put my journal in so my husband can’t read it. That’s also because my priority is not to maintain a police state while pretending to serve the public’s interest.
New York City’s priority is definitely to maintain a police state above all else. If that wasn’t clear by the fact that the city is being run by a cop, the city paying for a subway robot and increasing drone surveillance should make that very clear. It’s so that the people who live in the city know they are constantly being watched, which is unethical and, honestly, very creepy. I don’t like the idea of Eric Adams watching me do anything. Yes, I’m pretty sure Eric Adams watches all the footage from the police robot surveilling Times Square based on this photo of them hugging. This robot is Eric Adams’ only friend and friends always catch each other up on their days.
If you thought cutting services that really matter while giving the police a private line to chat is terrible, Eric Adams is blaming the 5% budget cut on people who have immigrated to New York City because it can always get worse with Eric Adams. Who would have thought a cop mayor would also be a racist who scapegoats vulnerable people for his terrible decisions? Me, I thought that.
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