- SanguinePar ( @sanguinepar@lemmy.world ) 32•1 year ago
“Met tries to distract from its own horrendous recent record, while pitching for yet more power to clamp down on whoever they feel like”
- piezoelectron ( @piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz ) 18•1 year ago
49 rapes by ONE cop. Never forget.
- Katana314 ( @Katana314@lemmy.world ) 25•1 year ago
I mean…good? People work with oil because it’s cheap. If protests are a way of making it costly, then it’s doing its job.
Why is the default thought to just “Wait until the protests are over”?
- piezoelectron ( @piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz ) 11•1 year ago
I want to say this makes me happy but who am I kidding, the Met’s obviously saying this to justify demanding more police funding.
- gingerrich ( @gingerrich@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
And don’t forget trying to drum up support to ban protests.
- BobApril ( @BobApril@lemmy.one ) 11•1 year ago
That’s still got to be orders of magnitude less than the externalized costs of the oil companies in the same time period - even just counting the costs to the UK gov’t and population.
- venuswasaflytrap ( @venuswasaflytrap@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year ago
Definitely - but that’s 15% of the Mets budget. Screwed up as it is, it’s also underfunded, and the result is that Londoners who are most affected by crime - predominantly low-income - will pay for this
- joelthelion ( @joelthelion@lemmy.world ) 10•1 year ago
Well, just stop oil then :)
- drjkl ( @drjkl@programming.dev ) 7•1 year ago
Those are rookie numbers; gotta pump those numbers up.
- Cian ( @Cian@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 6•1 year ago
Oh no… Anyway
- RedMarsRepublic ( @RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world ) 5•1 year ago
These figures are totally made up.
- Nosferatu ( @Nosferatu@lemmy.world ) 5•1 year ago
I’m sure they can sell or loan of one or two stolen artifacts to pay for what amounts to a drop of money in their annual spending.