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> But in Minnesota, a financial agreement with a foreign company has given public police forces an incentive to arrest demonstrators. I must have missed it. Wh
by mfer 5y ago
> But in Minnesota, a financial agreement with a foreign company has given public police forces an incentive to arrest demonstrators.
I must have missed it. What’s the incentive. Are the police paid by the number of arrests or something else?
> Police have arrested more than 900 demonstrators opposing Line 3 and its impact on climate and Indigenous rights
Identifying where problems are is, it think, important. So, where these people doing illegal things or arrested for doing legal things? Police enforce laws but legislatures create them. Is there an issue of bad laws a legislature needs to look at around protesting?
- sofixa 5y ago> I must have missed it. What’s the incentive. Are the police paid by the number of arrests or something else? They are paid for overtime by the company directly, so yeah. Each extra arrest is more time spent on documentation, interrogation, etc., which means more money past a certain threshold.