Was having ~30 salaried NYPD personnel to escort one dude really a good use of budget?

Violence is never the answer. Violence is the question, and the answer is "YES".

We always see what we want to see.

it's class warfare, that's what it is.

They're treating him like he tried to blow up Gotham City when all he did was kill Lex Luthor.

Are there any photos online, where cops don't look like absolute bitchmade pussies? JFC

It’s always worth the budget for this shot.

So, given that 4 students is equal to 1 cop and that 1 CEO is more or less equal to 30 cop, We can say that a student is equal to 0.25 cop So a CEO is equal to 120 students live. As they have been around 70 victim to school shooting by year and around 300 school shooting for the last 3 years in the USA, we can deduct that the death of a CEO is around 2 year of school shooting combined (not taking into account the wounded) so around 600 school shooting.

Is my math correct?

It's all about attention. They wanted their photos taken. Luigi made history, while children getting massacred is just another day in the USA.

Why are we pretending like this isn't prudent on NYPD's part? If this weren't 2000 miles away I'd probably show up, if not to try and bust him out then at the very least to throw shit at the cops and yell. And if I'm considering driving a prius thru the fence to free the guy, I can only imagine what the non suburban-cishet-white-male-techie demographic is feeling about it.

The shareholders demand blood and a show.

of course it was.

What else would they use it on? Helping low income and disadvantaged people? Pfffff.

They want to look super scared and weak. Its how I see them when it takes that many fedbois for one dude.

He's high profile and people might want to break him out. That's probably the reason.

Yeah no shit, crowds didn't gather around to ask for the release of the college killer.

"The function of that police action, those interventions in Central America and the Middle East, is system sustaining. It is to maintain that overall system. You don't look at the particular cost. I can demonstrate to you that in every single bank robbery, the cost of the police was more than the actual money that the robbers took from the bank. Does that mean there's no economic interest involved? They're not protecting the banks? No! Of course it's economic; of course they're defending the banks. If they didn't stop that bank robbery, regardless of the cost, it could jeopardize the entire banking system. There are people who believe that the function of the police is to fight crime. That's not true; the function of the police is social control and protection of property."

Michael Parenti

They're afraid he might 3D print an escape copter and break free...

Come on, don't pretend y'all didn't love that photo.

On a possibly unrelated note. If you were with the NYPD, would you pull strings to be part of that escort? Just a shower thought.

It's so everyone can see who's the boss.

Well, I mean, it's Emmanuel Goldstein here.

You know, the arch nemesis of the Party, the guy in every Two Minutes of Hate?

Obviously his capture warrants a significant security presence, who knows what he's capable of.

They had to maintain their "fearful" image, or they wouldn't be able to do their job.

Not like they're even doing a good job with their real job. $7.50 an Hour ended up doing their job for them.

Hero needs to have his posse.

The Mayor of NYC had nothing better to do, too.

Y'all laughing but this how pigs make careers

WTF, don't they have a picket line to break or something?

It's making a statement that if you go after the rich/CEOs - they'll throw every resource into finding you.

It's because of the circumstances of how both were found.

Maybe it is a distraction from strike breaking?

Get your filthy hands off our hero you swine.

Maybe they all wanted his autograph too. I wonder who thier health insurance provider is...

Well, Elon and Donald have taken care of the "salaried" thing now. But yes, they are showing him off like Hannibal Lector. They have treated worse people better, but they just killed "blacks", not CEOs.

Cops: WEEeee Are The SuperFash!

Luigi: Shutuuup

Cops: Weeeeee Are teh Suuper Faaash!

Luigi: Shut uuuuuuup!

This meme is STUPID! Those Kids were POOR Dumby! I'm Pro Life and I want to Save The Children!

Because only people with money are real people.... Duh..

might as well, if they're salaried they're getting paid either way.

They knew if it was just one dude, Luigi would have been rescued.

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113677125055279978

Stop this nonsense. He is now a public figure, and the police have all the reasons in the world to encounter protests.

If the police sent 5 guys, encountered a small group who attach them you'd all be meme'ing about the police incompetency.

This is the dumbest reason to make fun of the police who make it easy.

Dude caused a dip in US GDP, stop acting shocked authorities are making a show of it.

The second CEOs start considering moving to Canada or UK over the US, the economy is done. It's already a serious risk due to way more poor people with guns than most other countries.