Bootlicker Fantasy: "If you defund the police what are you going to do if someone attacks you?"
Police Reality: "We hear a citizen being attacked, maybe if we wait it will go away or become someone else's problem. These things have a tendency to work themselves out where I don't have to put myself in harms way... the most important thing is assuming no risk so I can get home to my family because I'm a hero."
Fuck these pieces of shit. They stood by and listened as a woman was brutally murdered RIGHT BY THEM, and instead of doing literally anything, they “called for more experienced backup”
Fuck a lawsuit, fuck jail time, these motherfuckers deserve exactly the death that they deliberately failed to prevent. Slow and fucking painful.
For anyone wondering, it's about the equivalent of just under 0.05% of their city budget about two years ago. Probably less so now as budgets tend to not get smaller.
So, rounding error isn't that far off.
Edit: they also operated at a surplus far greater than this fine as well. Though I will admit I don't know if they're still in surplus.