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101+ Minneapolis cops were at a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial. The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves. (www.thisisbydesign.com)
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MPD records show that the department deployed at least 101 personnel to Renee Good’s memorial on the morning of January 9th, where records identified just seven people holding vigil. The deployment was part of Operation Trust and Safety, which generated $1.92 million in overtime in four days. It involved SWAT and Strike teams as well as drones, city cameras, body-worn and helmet cameras, command-post intelligence, person and vehicle checks, and the preservation of footage and other information as police evidence.

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[–] 30 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I've been watching The Wire lately and all of the cops in the show practically pee their pants in excitement when they learn there's an opportunity to make overtime pay to do nothing

Wild that it's been an open secret for so long, I guess the capitalists understand they need to keep their enforcers fat and happy

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  • [–] 29 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    we all sort of know it, but it is rarely laid out openly: how much of the public sector budget for various entities is gobbled up by cop shit. it's obscured by federal grants and state pass through funds, and sometimes lumped in with other public sector spending.

    if people could look up, in plain language, exactly what it costs for all this overpolicing and what these dirt bags take home compared to actually important shit like maintenance/sanitation workers, city engineers, etc, it would blow a lot of people's minds and make the "defund the police" language a lot more poignant.

    clearly institutional powers are threatened by that conversation in their efforts to obscure the facts around these funds and their work to make "defund the police" mean something unrealistic and impractical.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    Back around 2020 the town my brother lives in was paying about 30% of the entire city budget to the police department. Unrelated: they still don't have safe drinking water after about a decade of inaction

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  • [–] 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    California has a public database with state and local salary information; maybe your state does, too. https://transparentcalifornia.com/

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

    looking up individuals is one thing, but to actually have the full dataset would be something else. and even that is a degree removed from having the dataset analyzed and broken out to show exactly how money is allocated across the spectrum of public services, which is a skillset not every person has.

    a searchable spreadsheet is the absolute bare minimum of transparency, and frankly its more like when a law firm sends over a bunch of printed papers to bury opposing counsel rather than a thumb drive that can be indexed, searched, and analyzed. an individual would have to do a shitload of legwork here to actually uncover the patterns or do any critical analysis.

    i used to work at a public institution that had "transparency" for its salaries in this same way. what it did not include was overtime or bonus structure information. and it obscured certain "sensitive" information and let some transfer payments be hidden as contracts. so, really we could look up any individual, standard employee for that specific year, but did not have access to a dataset that we could analyze ourselves. and it did not reveal contract information or larger budget allocations.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago

    looking up individuals is one thing, but to actually have the full dataset would be something else.

    You can download the full datasets, though, at least by city / county / agency. The site I linked to is just one of many pooling from the same source. Local newspapers will run a story with that data once a year or so, which they sometimes put into charts or more readily searchable tables. This graph is missing from the Archive version, but each bubble pops up with this info:

    an individual would have to do a shitload of legwork here to actually uncover the patterns or do any critical analysis.

    Well, yes. Maybe with non-corporate journalists and coders we could further separate the SF Chronicle's chart so as to move pigs out of the "public safety employee" category.

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