🚨NEW INVESTIGATION: Private donors including big-box stores, fossil fuel companies & tech giants are secretly giving hundreds of millions of dollars to police groups, allowing them to buy specialized weapons & surveillance tech with almost no public oversight.
Critics say this dark money makes police forces beholden to the companies and donors bankrolling them, rather than the communities they are sworn to serve. https://www.levernews.com/the-police-have-a-dark-money-slush-fund/