Public money is spent to benefit the rich more then the poor

Because the police protect capital above all.

If CEOs are dying there's a potential negative financial impact, whereas unhoused people dying makes their job easier.

Remember about a year and a half ago when no expense or resource was spared to try to rescue a billionaire with a deathwish from the bottom of the Atlantic while AT THE VERY SAME TIME over 500 refugees that could have been saved, who were still at the surface, were left to drown off the coast of Greece.

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/titanic-submarine-billionaires-get-massive-global-rescue-effort-refugees-left-to-drown/

The ship had been in distress almost two days before it sank, but help didn’t come until it was too late. How many might have been rescued with one-tenth the resources that were rushed to save the five billionaires and millionaires on the Titan?

This isnt a healthcare problem. This is a global crony market capitalist problem.

This is a class warfare occupation problem.

Fuck valuing human life on the basis of ego score.

This is why serial killers often got away for so long. Many serial killers picked their victims very specifically based on economic and social standing. Sex workers were often ignored by ignored by everyone and their killers frequently got away with it.

Even historic serial killers like Albert Fish (a incredibly monstrous person) chose to kill poor black children because he knew that the (mostly white) police force of the time would not give two fucks about a missing poor black child.

I guess someone finally got tired of the guillotine jokes and actually did it.

Murica gonna Murica, what else can I say?

Wrong, police spends quite a lot against poor and homeless people to "keep them in line"

It's only weird if you believe the prime function of the police is to protect everybody.

If you think the prime function of the police is to protect the rich and their assets, these action of theirs make perfects sense as do many other actions (such as prioritizing fighting crime against property over stopping violence)

Well, it's not weird, weird. It's more like immoral, but kind of regular.

It's very likely that NYPD is going to spend a lot more on this murder than an "ordinary" one, but do you really know they only spend a few thousand on an ordinary one or did you just pull that number out of your ass? Cuz I have no idea what the murder investigation budget is.

RTO? How about DTO (Death To Oligarchs)?

I saw nothing.

Its sweet and innocent that thinks the cops even give a thousand dollars of time and effort to investigating crimes against the poor.

They should close the investigation now before we waste more resources. Can't they just get another CEO? Plus its not like the old CEO is just gonna wakeup and start ceo-ing .... Not with all them speed holes.

Don't you understand how serious it is to have any threats to oligarchy???? Even if 300m people would accept an offer to replace him in his job, and provide just as effective claims denials, a homeless person...

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Any evidence for either number?

Have I missed something? I feel like the NYPD is investigating this the same way they do every murder.

Sure, the media is covering it like crazy, but I haven't seen anything to indicate that the NYPD is doing anything different than their norm. And the NYPD can't exactly control what the news covers.

At worst they've been told, "hey, there's a lot of scrutiny on this one, so give it a little extra attention," but that's not "millions of dollars" they they otherwise wouldn't have spent.

The police, in their fear of having their names on searchable and public property deeds, regularly rent at a discount from the rich.

The police don't rent cheap places from the poor. The police rent from the rich. It is not because the rich are better people. It is because they have the wealth to give to the violent.

It seems to me that we as a people could press vocally but not violently at this collusion of economic class warfare to force change.

Press on the rich that enable police abuse under to cover of cheap or free rent and ANONYMITY

Stop the vassal state.

Why is it weird?

Not asking why it is unfair, just why it is weird.

What do you think thr 1950s was? The giant boom following USA government subsidies of the middle class, courtesy of FDR. The 1950s had a raging lack of equality, and were in part sustained on the backs of women, but that’s another discussion. It would not have happened at all, in any format, without government subsidy.

From FDR to 1981, an American middle class was subsidized. American labor was valued. You could say it was one of our best commodities, for everyone concerned.

Then, in 1981, the format switched. The idea was, the most financially efficient way to run America was to subsidize the investors and corporate. As such, the wealth would then trickle down to all parts of society, enriching the nation as a whole with this fantastical efficiency. Subsidizing the middle class was systematically broken, overturned, and the subsidies were then given to investors and corporate.

American labor was systemically devalued.

Which brings us to present day. Biden did start to pick away it the 1981-2020 travesty, but fixing broken things takes time, and this broken thing will take more than a couple years to fix. Some teamsters got to keep their retirement, infrastructure will slowly feed us in years to come, but it’s not enough, and it’s certainly not something that even helps most of our day to days as of yet.

Well, that ended this year.

And now we have the people subsidized and grown fat from the 1981-2020 structure in charge.

What will happen next?

Will American labor regain its value? Will we subsidize a middle class instead of the upper tier of individuals, the very people running the show now, going forward? Or will we all be financially squeezed even further beyond our capacities?

We will have to wait and see.

Squeaky wheels get the grease.

I know it's not the point but Jesus fucking Christ then is not than. How fucking hard is it to notice that they're two different words?

Of course it is, just look at Elon and Vivek drooling over their possibilities. Fuck them both.

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selfresponsibility. if u rich as fuck and ppl around u are poor as fuck you might want to pay for security yourself when a country cant even protect its weakest citizens.

I think the word this person is looking for is "tragic"

Veterans dying in the street, but sure, billionaires need a tax cut!

Yeah dude, you're the only one who thinks the power structure in this country is weird. Everyone thinks it's good and normal. Even the killer never thought about that

Why is it weird? This shit was always happening, you're just now starting to finally notice it and wake up.

How's this a meme?

Well we could ask the same question when Notre dame de Paris burned, how many millions went to rebuild it?

I respect the arts and the building is an important part of French history which is important.

I would however say that it is interesting that we cannot raise money for charities but if an art building burn oh well... Let the millions pour in....

So while I am sure the expense per person is more. Expense for rich murders vs poor murders is probably the opposite simply because of the difference in quantity.

Maybe it's a good reason to reduce public spending in general. People act like public spending is a way to even things out, but in practice as the post evidences, the more we tax and the more the government spends the more wealth has actually been concentrated.

CEO pays a lot more in taxes than a poor, so it makes sense.

Are people really acting like an assassination is the same thing as your everyday, meat-and-potatoes murder?