In 2024, the NYPD budget was doubled from last year to $11B. We pay an average of over $1K per person in taxes to have these assholes harass us and hold our city hostage. Our public pool can't open because we can't afford lifeguards, but there are crowds of tooled-up cops in every subway station playing Candy Crush on their phones and forcing unhoused people to do tricks for them. And if anyone says a word about defunding, they get even more useless and violent to retaliate against the city.