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More Police Brutality ... Protesters Win (For Now) ... Own a Piece of History
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Banzai is too humble to toot his own horn, so I'm doing it for him.
Note: All proceeds from the sale of the buttons will go to a very worthy charit ... directly into his pocket, to buy tequil ... enable him to create even more works of genius.
Update 1: Police Punch Woman Protester In the Face
Update 2: Move On Tries to Take Over Occupy Wall Street Protests
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/02…
Next, we learn -- thanks to the ever wonderful Wall Street investigative guru, Pam Martens, of those nicely ongoing payments to Big Apple's Finest, and how they pile up and up and up:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/10/f…
Corporate media are reporting that these white shirts are police supervisors as opposed to rank and file. Recently discovered documents suggest something else may be at work.
If you’re a Wall Street behemoth, there are endless opportunities to privatize profits and socialize losses beyond collecting trillions of dollars in bailouts from taxpayers. One of the ingenious methods that has remained below the public’s radar was started by the Rudy Giuliani administration in New York City in 1998. It’s called the Paid Detail Unit and it allows the New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street corporations, including those repeatedly charged with crimes, to order up a flank of New York’s finest with the ease of dialing the deli for a pastrami on rye.
The corporations pay an average of $37 an hour (no medical, no pension benefit, no overtime pay) for a member of the NYPD, with gun, handcuffs and the ability to arrest. The officer is indemnified by the taxpayer, not the corporation.
New York City gets a 10 percent administrative fee on top of the $37 per hour paid to the police. The City’s 2011 budget called for $1,184,000 in Paid Detail fees, meaning private corporations were paying wages of $11.8 million to police participating in the Paid Detail Unit. The program has more than doubled in revenue to the city since 2002.
The taxpayer has paid for the training of the rent-a-cop, his uniform and gun, and will pick up the legal tab for lawsuits stemming from the police personnel following illegal instructions from its corporate master. Lawsuits have already sprung up from the program.
When the program was first rolled out, one insightful member of the NYPD posted the following on a forum: “… regarding the officer working for, and being paid by, some of the richest people and organizations in the City, if not the world, enforcing the mandates of the private employer, and in effect, allowing the officer to become the Praetorian Guard of the elite of the City. And now corruption is no longer a problem. Who are they kidding?”
Just this year, the Department of Justice revealed serious problems with the Paid Detail unit of the New Orleans Police Department. Now corruption probes are snowballing at NOPD, revealing cash payments to police in the Paid Detail and members of the department setting up limited liability corporations to run upwards of $250,000 in Paid Detail work billed to the city.
But the grand finale, of course, are all those planted drugs on innocent citizens to boost the NYPD's quotas (from an ongoing police corruption trial in the Rotten Apple):
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/152727/for…
As corrupt as this practice is, testimony from Stephen Anderson, a former NYPD narcotics detective, shows it's just the tip of the iceberg.
According to Anderson, who testified at trial Wednesday, New York City police regularly planted drugs on innocent people to meet quotas. Anderson should know. He was arrested in 2008 for planting cocaine on four men in a bar in Queens. His statements are the first glimpse into a culture of set-ups at the Brooklyn South and Queens Narc squads where eight corrupt cops were arrested.
OK, so in 1978 the Knapp Commission found that 88% of the NYPD was corrupt and on the take --- today it must be just about 100%.
'Nuff said about federal and state goverment corruption, me thinks? FANTASTIC GRAPHIC, Graphic Master Buckaroo Banzai!!!!
A thousand apologies, GW, meant to say outstanding graphic, Mr. Washington!
Too many late nights recently.....
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