Originally Posted by Socks

The cost of the police presence is a horrible argument. Police forces lobby governments too, mostly to ensure they're able to overhire and swell their ranks.

At a large liquour store near me (owned by the government) they'll have 5 police officers doing "pay duties" (read: double time overtime) all day, standing in the store, doing nothing. There is never a problem at the liquor store here. If there was, they could y'know.. Call the police, who would be there in 5 minutes.

Every time there are construction workers working on the roads here, it's legally mandated that police officers stand there, doing nothing. Usually 2 or 3 of them. "for the safety of the construction crews..."

They do everything they can to get as many hours in as possible, which is why we have a staggering number of regular police officers making SIX FUCKING FIGURES here.

If anything, the protesters are doing the police a favour. If you're mad at that, be mad at the police force. Without the protesters, they're hard at work every day of the year trying to waste our money any way they can anyways.