As Occupy Wall Street began, Chase made biggest donation in history to NYPD ($4.6M)

[Courtesy Flush]

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/02/as-occupy-wall-street-began-chase-makes-biggest-donation-in-history-to-nypd.html

The gift was the largest in the history of the foundation and will enable the New York City Police Department to strengthen security in the Big Apple. The money will pay for 1,000 new patrol car laptops, as well as security monitoring software in the NYPD's main data center.

[StandingInLeftField]

1. Not surprised.

No one else should be, either.

[TeeYiYi]

2. It's clear, the cops are there to protect the 1%.

Scary.

TYY

[jtrockville]

3. I guess the best way to fund our local PDs is to occupy all our cities?

Any way we could get Chase to earmark those funds for pensions and health care?

[Desertrose]

7. ROFL!

Be nice though, wouldn't it?

[leftstreet]

9. lol

[mod mom]

4. update: the donation was made in mid-June

they knew what was coming.

[defendandprotect]

5. That should be illegal -- police are there as public servants ... not corporate servants -- !!!

[Desertrose]

6. Holy crap! I shouldn't be surprised......but yet I am.

The brazenness of these giant banks/corporations still amazes me.

[SoCalDem]

8. Sounds about par for the course

They claim poverty & desperation..tax payers bail them out..they refuse to make loans or modify loans for taxpayer-customers, then embark on a buying frenzy , gobbling up competitors, and then "find" LOTS of money they "donate" to police who will protect them from their irate customers..

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. K&R!

[classysassy]

11. Protections money

The banksters need to be protected from the serfs.

[Leopolds Ghost]

12. Sadly, police departments as we know them were invented to protect the rich and powerful.

Pinkertons and all that were the first organized police force.