fun facts about the world

I was reading something in the NY Post today( http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/65796.htm -if you want to read the actual article, truth told, I just skimmed. I try not to get too bogged down reading articles by hack journalists. Did I say that out loud?) about how NYC was going to add 1,200 new cops, and I’m like "why would they do that?"

I understand, in theory, that the police play some sort of role in maintaining law and order in the city, but rather than adding police, why don’t we kick some people out to maintain the balance of power between civilians and killer cops (I’m looking at you illegal immigrants with criminal records).

Also to consider, while crime may not be good for the victims, it certainly is the thriving force behind cultural development. I mean, what sort of viable art ever came out of places like Orange County.

ANYWAY, as it is now the NYC police force is larger than the standing armies of like 85 countries, and I don’t even think I can list 85 countries (lets see…. Italy, England, Spain, Europe, Puerto Rico, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Cuba, Ireland, Poland, Turkey, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, Korea, North Korea, China, Peru, Greenland, Iceland, Belgium, France, Paraguay, Uruguay…no homo on "Uruguay").

Suffice to say that there are a lot of cops around everywhere and they make me feel nervous and reduce my quality of life, not that anyone cares. I personally don’t know anyone who was ever helped by the cops, in NYC or anywhere else for that matter. And if you were helped by the cops, I can only say that it’s 2006 and about time you STOP SNITCHING. If someone assaults you, assault them back and go on your merry way. I’m sure Hammurabi is rolling over in his fucking grave!

I also want to point out that NYC Taxpayers pay for police overtime, much of which is as a direct result of 9/11. One may ask why the city pays for something that clearly falls under the umbrella of Homeland Security, but Michael Chertoff stopped answering my e-mails after I called him "a pathetic failure with sub-par personal hygiene" and insinuated I had videos of myself with his daughter (and mother) in rather compromising situations.

These overtime costs break (mathematically, son) down to about $5 million dollars a week (yeah, a week) just in excess pay to the NYPD directly related to keeping the MTA safe in quotation marks. So, while shitfuck places like whatever town YOU came from stand in line like the little gold-diggers they are and suck up the fat from these pork barrel homeland security grants, the financial burden for protecting the city with the highest threat level (and the only city attacked to date) falls squarely on my shoulders. I’m talking about New York here. Focus!

Now, I’m not going to front, I got a D- in Prob and Stat my freshman year of college and since then I’ve let the digital scale handle most of the my complex math problems, but $5 million (extra cost per week) times 52 (number of weeks in a year) = $260 million, even if you don’t include the "counter terrorism program in the financial district". Then why the fuck is NYC asking the Dept. Of Homeland Security (you’ll recognize them by the blood on their hands from Katrina. I keep telling you, use bleach!) for $219 million? Excuse me, we’re planning to ask. I guess we haven’t worked up the nerve yet, what are we going to wait until the Dept. Of Homeland Security is drunk at a fucking cocktail party to bring this up??

"Officials also said they plan to ask the Department of Homeland Security for $219 million in federal funding to help with overtime, equipment and a new $81 million counter-terrorism program in the Financial District."

Am I living in a fucking dreamworld? Click on the box to the left for a remedial course in mathematics.

"Meanwhile, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, which investigates charges of misconduct by cops, was fighting for its life at the budget hearing yesterday.

Even as complaints are steadily rising - up 9 percent in 2005 - the mayor wants to cut the CCRB’s finances."

Awesome! Well, at least we still have 1-800-COP-SHOT. Thank god for that.

Also: There is a free show up at Fordham University this Friday at 6PM to protest police brutality, featuring Live Performances by Hasan Salaam, Immortal Technique, Styles P, Saigon and more…

Barring a Utopian society developing by Friday where there is no such thing as police brutality, I’ll be there.

Until then, peep the video footage from the last CHRONIKILL show, and keep waiting for spring like it’s coming home with your fix dinner: I’m waiting right there with y’all.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FtEld6sxiHQ - The link.

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