Corporate donors are funneling hundreds of millions of dollars into police foundations without public oversight, allowing for the police to buy specialized surveillance technology and high-tech weapons that they might otherwise struggle to justify.
So if they weren’t already protecting capital instead of people, this is the literal nail in the coffin for community protection by any law enforcement group that takes money this way. What are they gonna do, bite the hand that feeds? This is why we as people do not trust the police.
So if they weren’t already protecting capital instead of people, this is the literal nail in the coffin for community protection by any law enforcement group that takes money this way. What are they gonna do, bite the hand that feeds? This is why we as people do not trust the police.