The threat was sent by IMG Worldwide, a giant entertainment and sports agency, on behalf of the Los Angeles Police Foundation, which is the name of a private foundation that the Los Angeles Times calls “the LAPD’s secretive, multimillion-dollar private funding arm.” The LAPF has purchased surveillance tech, robots, drones, and Palantir licenses for the LAPD.
It’s unbelievably dangerous to allow the people tasked with enforcing the state’s monopoly on violence to access secretive private funding.
At least the republicans destroying US institutions are mostly working on behalf of rival imperial powers. Allowing your police to be beholden to private money is such an own goal.
Yeah. They can gtfo with that shit.
It’s unbelievably dangerous to allow the people tasked with enforcing the state’s monopoly on violence to access secretive private funding.
At least the republicans destroying US institutions are mostly working on behalf of rival imperial powers. Allowing your police to be beholden to private money is such an own goal.
LAPD: We’ve been pilloried for decades with our abusive practices. How can we fix this image?
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