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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 1348" data-source="post: 81974">There will absolutely be no police reform whatsoever, especially in major cities. The police department of today is run in large part as a revenue generating operation. Cities of mid to large sizes are broke. They can only raise sales taxes, income taxes so much. They raise the fines on parking meters but they can only do it by so much. They raise the price of city forms and licences by only so much. You can only raise property taxes so much as well as late fees for paying your water, gas, etc. So, the police department is needed to raise money. When they write tickets it goes into the city's general fund and the city council and mayor can do whatever the f*ck they want with that money. The police are an unsaid, off the books tax on the people. Police departments do not give warnings any more if you notice. Most cities do away with 'fix it' tickets. Former NYC mayor Bill De Blasio, tried to f*ck with the NYPD in 2015. The PD did what is called a 'slow down'. They only responded to felonies (robberies, murder, etc). They stopped pursuing most non violent crime (speeding, parking violations, etc.). It cost NYC at least 5 million in lost revenue and the mayor backed down. That's why defund the police, or whatever won't happen. The city councils don't want to lose the money. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/report-apparent-police-slowdown-cost-nyc-5-million-in-lost-fines/[/URL]</blockquote>

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