Open this photo up. Zoom in. This is tonight. In Union Square. In NYC. This is how our leaders choose to spend taxpayer money. https://twitter.com/newyorkyearzero/status/1324543848882851841
I’ve watched hundreds of videos of NYPD policing protests since May. People make light of them, but bicycle cops have been among the most violent & brutal. Just last night video of attacking w/ bikes & dragging a protestor by the neck. This train of bicycle cops is ominous.
The NYPD is *unreformable.* Despite decades of reform, they're still using banned chokeholds. Cars, chemicals, bicycles & batons as weapons. Conduct that, if committed by people I represented, would be prosecuted as violent felonies. Wrote on it here: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/video-police-abuses-nypd-trampling-constitution-reveal-inefficacy-reform-ncna1235333
Opinion | Some police departments cannot be reformed. And we have the videos prove it.

The people we represent are often subjected to brutal police violence. But perhaps most telling is that all of this is playing out while the world is watching.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/video-police-abuses-nypd-trampling-constitution-reveal-inefficacy-reform-ncna1235333
The $1 billion taxpayers pay NYPD in just overtime could instead house every one of the 14k homeless families now living in NYC. Then pay a year of rent for 7k families out of work & at risk of eviction because of the pandemic. With $400 million to spare.
The $327 million per year that NYC residents pay for police in schools with no impact on public safety, could instead fund full four-year scholarships for over 4000 students to attend NY state colleges. We need to talk. http://Need-to-talk.com 
An intervention.

This is an intervention. For decades we’ve invested in “solutions” we were told were supposed to make society safer, healthier, and more productive. They do exactly the opposite. This has to stop.

http://Need-to-talk.com
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