i think it should be a bigger story that NYC’s public libraries are now being forced to close on Sundays due to budget cuts while the NYPD spends 95% of the Library system’s total budget to get new encrypted radios that prevent people from knowing when the cops kill people

The NYPD is spending $390 million on a new, encrypted radio system

The public and news reporters will no longer be able to listen in.

Just normal fascist things

democracy dies in the dark

Took me a minute - I was wondering why the libraries had radios. So the library budget is going to the cops? Well, if you didn't know we live in a military state, you do now.

our local, as it has appeared for years

Follow me and I’ll follow back

More toys for the criminals to terrorize the citizens of New York City.

I'm sure that encryption won't get cracked, like ever....

The city could probably fund every location of the library to be open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week all year long if it spent just one week giving out parking tickets to all the cars parked illegally near police stations (and then actually collecting the fines)

So NYPD is joining 70% of the law enforcement agencies nationwide by moving to encrypted communication. Why is that news? This is the rule now, not the exception, and it has been for 15 years or more.

Seems like money well spent on something that probably won’t survive a legal battle