if a policeman is rightfully charged for their crimes what good is their pensionThe issue with settlements and the push for police reform is that the entities that are funding these settlements profit whenever these things happen.
If money from settlements was coming directly from the police's pension fund or from their budget, then that would be different.
How things are now... The cities that are forking up the settlement money for the victims/victims families go to financial institutions (banks, investment firms, Wall Street) to get the money. Police Brutality Bonds get issued to cities/municipalities by these institutions... there is interest on these bonds. The money gets paid out to the victims/families and taxpayers pay it back WITH interest. Meanwhile, the police force doesn't lose any funding because they aren't footing the bill for the settlement to begin with.
That's why the whole 'Defund the Police' Movement was hilarious to me because that wouldn't stop police brutality because the financial industry would still be making millions and in some cases billions of dollars off of police brutality and settlements.
There is no incentive for banks and insurance companies to want to see change because they are CAKING off of it annually.
Police don't give a fukk because shyt happens in the field, there's a blue wall of silence, and at the end of the day... they are getting their pension.
Cities are in debt, so when push comes to shove, they'll just tax the residents more to recoup and pay for the interest back on the bonds that were needed to cash out victims and their families.
The cycle continues, rinse and repeat
Defund the police is about policing a different way cause this shyt ain’t working and it moves money from police budget which you’re advocating
Y’all sure y’all black?
