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It's not that out of line for the US: https://www.vera.org/publications/what-policing-costs-in-americas-biggest-cities

They are mad corrupt, though.

The 9/11s are starting ahead of schedule!

"Pay $500k to get access to the executive branch" is so on the nose. They are dancing in the endzone.

Didn't Pompeii literally have dicks carved into the street to point the way to the nearest brothel? I think the classical world was incredibly sexually liberated and similarly exposed to sex a lot more than we are.

I have been under the impression, since about 2001, that anyone named Hasan got detained any time they passed through any type of ID checkpoint already.

Monkey's paw it's for drug wholesalers on import prices but just so their profit margins increase one billion percent when prices to end users stay the same.

This is probably true in any country that's more than a few hundred years old.

I think they're figuring out that it's just a tranche of no-strings-attached cash for right wing purposes. Perfect opportunity for graft. No idea why they shut it down in the first place.

You'd have to control for fire deaths just in multi-unit buildings, though.

They're unnecessary.

Military parades are cringe, but it does prove your point to me a little bit that I didn't even know France had a military parade on Bastille Day.

I hear it's good to take money away from consumers during a recession.