http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/who-really-owns-nypd-turns-out-its-no
New York City gets a 10 percent administrative fee on top of the $37 per hour paid to the police. The City’s 2011 budget called for $1,184,000 in Paid Detail fees, meaning private corporations were paying wages of $11.8 million to police participating in the Paid Detail Unit. The program has more than doubled in revenue to the city since 2002.
The taxpayer has paid for the training of the rent-a-cop, his uniform and gun, and will pick up the legal tab for lawsuits stemming from the police personnel following illegal instructions from its corporate master. Lawsuits have already sprung up from the program.
Comment: Frightening and not good. It’s not even worth the time to spell out all the ways that this is just wrong and not what I thought ‘to protect and serve’ was supposed to be.
Or it gives that a very different meaning.
