I have been watching the protests. Seeing the progress that the protesters have made.
And, suddenly, we got idiots going from

BLACK LIVES MATTER

to

DEFUND THE POLICE?

WTF is this nonsense?

Once again, these young folk are getting played.😠

Defund the police?
Utter nonsense.
Words matter.
Using the wrong ones matter.
Using the wrong ones where you give your opponent to get up off the mat is RIDICULOUS😠

How about

MAKE.POLICE.FINANCIALLY.ACCOUNTABLE.👊👊

I know that I seem focused on the police and their monies, but, it angers me

No other job in America, where YOU can phuck up, cost your employer hundreds of thousands at the low end to millions at the high end..

And👏keep👏 your 👏 phucking 👏 job 👏

Where you can DO IT AGAIN😠

What if….instead of the taxpayers on the hook…
The money paid out for police misconduct lawsuit settlements..

CAME OUT OF THE POLICE PENSION FUND

Mess with THEIR money…..I bet things would change with a quickness.

So, this curious lady went into the weeds of the payroll of the Boston Police Department..

ALWAYS….Follow👏the👏money👏

At $414 mil, @bostonpolice is the 2nd largest line item in the whole city budget. That means:
– 7x larger than the Cabinet of Health & Human Services (inc 9 depts)
– 4x larger than the Public Health Commission @HealthyBoston
– 182x larger than the Office of Arts & Culture (2/10) pic.twitter.com/dpd6s7IQzj

— Lauren Chambers is on Bluesky (@lauren_marietta) June 5, 2020

and the PAYCHECKS.

In 2019, 530 – that's five 👏🏽 hundred 👏🏽 and 👏🏽 thirty 👏🏽 – #boscops were paid more than Boston mayor @marty_walsh. And Walsh makes $199k.

Yearly, BPD employees on average make $58,000 more than non-BPD Boston employees. (4/10) pic.twitter.com/W5sp66hVPx

— Lauren Chambers is on Bluesky (@lauren_marietta) June 5, 2020

.@bostonpolice estimates its employees will use over 1.2 million hours of overtime in 2020. This equals:
– 23,500 overtime hours BPD-wide per week
– 420 overtime hours (2.5 months) per BPD employee per year
– the equivalent of hiring over 570 new full-time employees (6/10) pic.twitter.com/KzzLFnHC9Q

— Lauren Chambers is on Bluesky (@lauren_marietta) June 5, 2020

Enraged??? Here are 4 ways to act:

1) Call and email @BOSCityCouncil councilors and Mayor @marty_walsh
2) TESTIFY via email, video, or Zoom at the budget hearing on Tuesday, June 9 (I will!) https://t.co/MNFnHk9Bhh
(8/10)

— Lauren Chambers is on Bluesky (@lauren_marietta) June 5, 2020

(11/10) ADDENDUM: I realized this morning there's a mistake with that top 20 earnings figure. I had the "regular" and "other" pay bars switched, ugh. 🤦🏽‍♀️😫 Why did ggplot gotta do me like that?? I should've caught it.
Here is the corrected figure (just updated blog & report): pic.twitter.com/uODOyoFJMO

— Lauren Chambers is on Bluesky (@lauren_marietta) June 6, 2020

Representative Clyburn sees the truth.

Following a clip from Ilhan Omar calling to dismantle the police, Jim Clyburn on CNN said he’s been in enough movements and protests to know when something is being hijacked by sloganeering.

— THEEAudacity (@ArrogantNBlack) June 9, 2020

.@ClyburnSC06 on “defund police”: “Police departments are needed. Police departments are wanted…I was there in the late 60s…We saw how our movement was hijacked by “burn baby burn”. We did a lot..We could have done more. John Lewis never struck a match. I never threw a brick”

— Erin Burnett (@ErinBurnett) June 9, 2020