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NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Big corporations accused of driving environmental and health inequalities in black and brown communities through toxic and climate-changing pollution are also funding powerful police groups in major US cities, according to a new investigation.Trump is using federal agents as his ‘goon squad’, says Ice’s ex-acting headRead more
Some of America’s largest oil and gas companies, private utilities, and financial institutions that bankroll fossil fuels also back police foundations – opaque private entities that raise money to pay for training, weapons, equipment, and surveillance technology for departments across the US.Advertisement
The investigation by the Public Accountability Initiative, a nonprofit corporate and government accountability research institute, and its research database project LittleSis, details how police foundations in cities such as Seattle, Chicago, Washington, New Orleans and Salt Lake City are partially funded by household names such as Chevron, Shell and […]
Who are these police protecting and serving? Certainly not the regular people who are doing no harm, just using their constitutional rights to protest, as we all should be.
Another thing: now police ,on a national level are sending me requests for more money, their reason is that so many incarcerated people are being let out of prison, even though I have seen nothing about these recently released prisoners doing anything. Crime rates do not reflect any uptick in violet, or other types of crime from what I have read. I believe they just want to become more like a military force than respect and protect which is what they are supposed to be doing.