Police are spending opioid settlement funds on Flock cameras
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Most depressingly USA-coded headline I’ve read all week
Why are these funds even being managed by the police in the first place?
The cops are responsible unlike those junkies that did all of the opiates. They'll spend this money more wisely and it'll help the community because that's what cops do!
The orphan crushing machine is humming along nicely.