Ohio fact #12:
All cops are bastards and the police must be defunded.
This is a graph of Columbus (the capital), Ohio's proposed budget for 2020. If someone could add an image description, that would be amazing, as I am a bit rushed for time right now.
First, let's touch on the fact that none of the expenses besides police even reach 50 million, while the inclusion of police funding requires a whole different scale with which to measure and compare the funds.
I know for a fact that Columbus City schools needs far more funding than it gets, and, "coincidentally," a majority of the students that attend Columbus City schools are black. Does it seem morally defensible to you to have fifty times more funding for an institution that thrives on the incarceration of people of color than for the education and growth of black youth?
I didn't think so. This system is designed to put minorities in prison. This isn't even touching on any other part of the graph, like development (the roads in Columbus are horrible to drive on) or health (we're in the middle of a pandemic). The city of Columbus does not care.
Black lives fucking matter.
[ID: a graph showing the proposed budget for Columbus, Ohio in 2020. Money allocated for Public Services, Finance, Health, Education, Development, Recreation, City Auditor and City Attorney is exclusively less than $50 million each (lowest is Education, just over $6 million) and the budget for police is almost $360 million. End ID]





















