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OK, how about this: the entire Federal judiciary runs on a budget about 20% less than the NYPD.
by NovemberWhiskey 6y ago
OK, how about this: the entire Federal judiciary runs on a budget about 20% less than the NYPD.
- efitz 6y ago"This is bigger than that" or "this is smaller than that" are not particularly useful comparisons. I could use the same tactic to make the budget seem overblown. The budget for the US federal judiciary is bigger than the GDP of 64 countries[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
- dralley 6y agoYou neglect to mention that most of those countries are islands with a couple tens of thousands of residents. The population of NYC may well be 5x higher than the combined populations of all of those countries.
- oehtXRwMkIs 6y agoThat is exactly their point.
- emn13 6y agoThe point is pretty incoherent then, because they're proving that indeed it's reasonable for the federal judiciary to have a larger budget and thus not demonstrating that comparing budgets leads to absurdity.
- emn13 6y agoThat's not a convincing argument, because it's pretty reasonable for a several orders of magnituge wealthier country to outspend a smaller economy on all kinds of stuff (including their entire GDP). Do you have a better example?
- Spooky23 6y agoOr NYPD has more cops than Portugal has soldiers.
- emn13 6y agoThat's not weird is it? I'd expect a normal, peaceful society to have less need for soldiers than police agents, and portugal is approximately as large as NYC, and not as wealthy: makes sense their military is smaller than NYC's police. I'd expect it to be smaller than their police force too (no idea if that's true, though). A quick google suggests 50k police officers and 33k soldiers - pretty unsurprising.