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[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

God, cops are obsessed with posing with anything they seize in bulk. Are the posing officers the ones involved? Who the fuck knows?!

But, let's take everything at face value. ~~$1000~~ $1700 "worth" of toilet paper... taken off the streets. Y'know, for safety. Like with drugs. This major bust apparently required 9 police officers, and, for some reason, a K9.

Let's be generous and assume that this department assigns 2 ~~pigs~~ ~~bastards~~ cops to a cruiser, and let's be considerate and assume that it took them only an hour to perform this sting and collect their Bounty. Let's also assume that they managed to only burn 1 gallon of gasoline per vehicle. Finally, I think that it's safe to assume that it took about two hours to get back to the station, decompress, tickle each other's assholes over what a good police job they did, fill out their passive language paperwork, stack the TP, take this picture posting like they just got Osama Bin Laden, and then make a couple of racist jokes.

According to ZipRecruiter, the average Plainfield, IL hourly wage is around $30/hr. According to Gas Buddy, gas prices are around $5/gallon. So, to protect their streets from, probably, $400 worth of toilet paper, it likely cost the city $925, plus whatever the hourly cost is to make sure a police dog doesn't get desensitized to black people.

But thank goodness Plainfield PD was there to prove that you can also use assholes to clean up toilet paper. Fucking ass-wipes.

[-] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

They're using wonky math to get that 1700$

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago
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