The New York City Police Foundation, established in the late 1970s as a booster group, allegedly transformed by the early 2000s into a corruption slush fund where corporate donations bypass public procurement rules to influence police operations. Similar foundations in Atlanta and Los Angeles reportedly facilitate surveillance systems and pay-for-play schemes, allowing wealthy donors to circumvent democratic oversight through graft. While the NYPD claims adherence to dignity and respect, these mechanisms allegedly enable crime and theft, suggesting that unchecked private funding undermines accountability and erodes public trust in law enforcement institutions. [Automatically generated summary]
The UAE donated money to get an overseas cop posted there.
So the money went through this thing called the New York City Police Foundation, a 501c3 organization that is a quote-unquote police booster.
This was set up in the late 1970s when the city was broke as a joke, right?
And the entire point was to give cops to buy cops gear that they needed.
I mean, this is when the NYPD didn't have money to fly detectives to like San Francisco to pick up a fugitive, right?
They couldn't afford a plane ticket.
So they raised private funds to buy cops bulletproof vests, to upgrade radios, cars, so have so forth.
By the early 2000s, this thing has turned into a slush fund that allows companies to donate to the police foundation.
The police foundation then turns around and buys that gear and donates it to the police department, which not only gets around public procurement rules, but let's be honest, it kind of determines what sort of influence the donors have over the department's operations and posture, right?
Wait, that seems like it's completely like a funnel for corruption.
It is.
And there's similar things, there's similar foundations that exist in Atlanta.
The police foundation there is tied in with the funding of the Cop City program.
And in LA, the police foundation there is how the department, that department built out its centralized surveillance system and purchased drones, purchased all sorts of other equipment.
I mean, it's, and there are allegations about pay-for-play there too.
I mean, it just doesn't seem also like if there's supposed to be any kind of democratic oversight over police departments, it seems like they can circumvent those by a group of wealthy citizens who essentially function as a way to for the police department to do like graft and procurement fraud and stuff like that.
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Yeah.
I mean, you know, it's also worth saying that the NYPD until recently also was able to withhold a number of their contract items from public disclosure.
And that's changed now, but it was, they used to have a black budget.
Well, that doesn't seem right to me.
I mean, listen, I felt the turn up truck yesterday.
And so to me, I understand when I see what are the cars say, dignity, courtesy, professionalism, respect.
These are words that I live by: CPR.
And it seems like that these people are mostly doing crime, public something to imagine I was saying something clever there, including stealing money from people, and rape, as we'll get to quite soon.
Yeah, I mean, that's what the NYPD wants: crime, pussy, and rape.