• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    You know, that’s an opportunity.

    Any time attention is focused on one place, there’s less on another.

    Take the moment and target something else.

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      8 hours ago

      Chicago has a pretty big police force unfortunately. Looks like around 12- 13k little piggies (source)

      So about 25 cops here leaves… roughly 12- 13k cops in the rest of the city :P

      ETA: fun facts, the Chicago Police Dept budget is just below $2 billion. That puts it right below Slovakia’s entire military budget. Slovakia’s population is ~5.5 million vs. Chicago’s 2.7 million people.

      Chicago alone has almost as many cops as the entirety of Ireland (which has 14.6k cops for 5.3 million Irish citizens)

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      9 hours ago

      That would probably work if there wasn’t a ridiculous overabundance of cops in just about all American cities.

      As it is, there’s enough of them to function as a private security force for billionaires and their property (their primary raison d’être) in greater numbers than usual like this without neglecting any of their usual oppression of minorities, poor people, and especially combinations thereof.

      • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 hours ago

        Unless these cops are in superposition, they can’t be both protecting Tesla and, say, in their actual cars.

        Their numbers are finite.

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        In Minecraft. Always in Minecraft.