STFU, Conservatives
JPMorgan gave a massive gift of $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation in the form of money, patrol car laptops, “security monitoring software,” and other tech resources. But the donation was given starting late last year and was completed by spring 2011, so it was obviously not made in response to the Occupy Wall Street protests. At the time, Commissioner Ray Kelly sent JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon a note expressing his “profound gratitude” for the donation, and a company-written news item about the gift described it as “unprecedented” in size.
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Justin Elliot, “The NYPD, now sponsored by Wall Street”

A consequence of cutting funds to services like the police is that private entities move in to fill the vacuum left by public funds. Now which would you rather have paying the salaries of the NYPD: taxpayers or JPMorgan?

(via downlo)

^^An excellent question to all free-market capitalists.
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