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[–] 70 points 4 months ago (17 children)

25% of a city budget to police? Wtf?

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (15 children)

    A lot of towns and cities spend way more than that.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

    I just checked, in Helsinki, Finland (my instance's location), 25% of the city budget (~1,25B€) would cover the police expense for entire country and more (~900M€).

    Here police is managed by the state but I tried to make things comparable. And I don't believe the police is extremely underfunded there. Is the US police driving tanks or wtf?

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Is the US police driving tanks or wtf?

    Yep. They literally are 🤬

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    That’s an M113 (variant), an APC (armoured personnel carrier) is nowhere near a tank.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That's a distinction without importance.

    What's important is that it's military hardware that they don't need and which reinforces their toxic mindset of being at war against certain neighborhoods, ethnicities, income brackets, and political ideologies.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    The importance is in the mind of the person who knows more about armaments and wants to flex that on other people. This happens nonstop in gun control debates, as if you need the technical knowledge of a gunsmith to debate the regulation of lethal force.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Urban police have a fuck ton of high tech equipment, high pay, and unlimited overtime (because the cities politically can't stop them from taking it). They also have frequent legal costs because they keep violating citizens' rights.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Speaks volumes what those in charge think of the population doesn't it?

    Here I am bitching at the metro because the grocery store has weight sensors on the self checkout because no one trusts me as a consumer.

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  • [+] -17 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Those stores see significant theft so I don't blame them. Or we could stick to the honor system and pay 2X.

    If it bothers you, use a cashier.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe we should be addressing the underlying problem of "why are people stealing groceries". I've never met a single person that is stealing a loaf of bread for shits and giggles.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Weight sensors don’t stop theft. They irritate costumers to the point they will stop using the self checkout.

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  • [–] -4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    How is it irritating? Swipe, put the thing in a bag on the sensor.

    What's irritating is people who get confused by this and insist on not using cashiers.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Have you ever used these? Often the weight is programmed wrong, so the item you put there is not recognized correctly, often it triggers falsely because something unexpected happened, they are generally a pain to use because the tolerance is set too low.

    They are fine in theory but not in practice.

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