mULTI-aGENCY sUPER sURGE: U.S. government shenanigans, January 2019

Incomplete (literally the ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of United States Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for January 2019:

Prison Industrial Complex

United Van Lines moving company reported the top five states people are fleeing are New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut, New York and Kansas.

Military Times: military spouses could receive potentially thousands of dollars in state tax refunds

ALABAMA: Paying out SNAP (food stamps) a month early

Trump is right? Democrats Faked Online Push to Outlaw Alcohol in Alabama Race

State Department of Corrections wants 20% increase in pay and to hire 5-hundred more prison guards

While we would hope committing crimes and “doing really dumb things” are always a bad idea, members of the Priceville Police Department want residents to know such shenanigans are cancelled

ARIZONA: Pima County Department of Transportation hit 36 workers with layoffs after cash strapped taxpayers rejected a $430 million construction package

SNAP benefits to be issued early

Why People Are Flocking From California to Arizona

ARKANSAS: University of Arkansas Medical Sciences center Had $29M Deficit, Used Restricted Funds

Public-housing contracts expire; tenants risk rent increases, loss of homes

The Faulkner County Quorum Court improperly used $350,000 in restricted taxpayer funds that were meant to support the 20th Judicial Circuit public defender’s office

CALIFORNIA: Hawthorne based taxpayer (NASA) funded Space X eliminating 7-hundred jobs!

Several Fairfield Police personnel disciplined for sex ‘crimes’

Elite LAPD unit disproportionately stopped black drivers

video of alleged assault of a veteran by Vallejo cop

three Pomona Police Department cops facing federal criminal charges

‘Red’ county sheriffs decry sanctuary laws after crime spree, cop killing

Nevada City sets up ‘goat fund me’ page to fight wildfires

COLORADO: Map shows Colorado police shootings so far this year, note that the overwhelming majority of shootings by cops are in the metro area along Interstate 25

CONNECTICUT: Has Among the Lowest Growth in the Nation

GEORGIA: New laws that went into effect

IDAHO: University of Idaho professor placed on leave after speaking out

University of Idaho will cut $5 million

STEM Action Center downplays $1M funding gap

federal taxpayer funding to assist statewide charter schools

ILLINOIS: More than 250 new state laws take effect

Barack Obama’s buddy Mayor Rahm Emanuel spent an incredible amount of taxpayer money on big corporations to encourage economic development. However, entire swaths of the city have seen little return on investments made with their tax dollars: “Development that does not address displacement is not development, it is whitewashing our neighborhoods and our communities.”-Amisha Patel, Grassroots Collaborative

Community groups try to slow down taxpayer raping $5 billion Lincoln Yards development

Des Plaines Moves Forward With Oakton Corridor Tax Increment Financing

DeKalb council approves Tax Incremental Funding audit, HUD money amendment

Property owners forced to pay for Shorewood Towne Center project

The city of Woodstock’s property owner raping Tax Increment Financing fund ended the fiscal year in the red!

Springfield City Council sent a message to developers who ask for large amounts of Tax Increment Financing: the risk is on you

Property owners forced to fund rebuild of failing Granada Theatre

INDIANA: Greenfield to rape property owners with Tax Incremental Financing for infrastructure projects, including one for a Chinese company!

MARYLAND: A former Baltimore cop has published a book detailing the level of crimes committed by cops, including fake drug busts, ‘disappearing’ drugs from police evidence lockers, just to name a few: “I learned about cops burglarizing houses and transporting stolen antiques in a paddy wagon. I’d seen cops sleeping and drinking on the job. I lost trust in fellow officers I had respected who were accepting bribes – even one who was my academy instructor. After two and a half years, I knew I had to get out of there!”–James I. Cabezas, who helped convict state lawmakers, city councilmen and, famously, a Baltimore mayor

(Reminds me of a cop crime while I was working in the News Department of KYMA, in Arizona, in 1995. Store owners in a shopping plaza were reporting massive thefts, they were taking place overnight even though the shop owners were paying the city of Yuma to have cops patrol the plaza. Yep it was a cop! The dumb cop that was committing the crime didn’t stop to realize that it’d be easy to finger him because the thefts took place only on his watch. Other cops staked out the plaza on his watch and caught him red handed.)

MICHIGAN: Traverse City Downtown Development Authority to further explore the possibility of expanding downtown’s Tax Increment Financing

MISSISSIPPI: Should it be this easy for Mississippi police to take your property?

Cops on Leave After Man’s Death from Head Injury

MISSOURI: Department of Corrections announces plan to consolidate prisons, blaming it on the biggest taxpayer funded pay raise for prison guards in the state’s history

Demand for transparency after Pleasant Hill jail death

NEBRASKA: court system lacks the funds to establish mental health courts

Operation Jupiter: U.S. Department of Defense spending $11-million in tax funding for development of drug therapies to protect military service members from the effects of radiation exposure

NEVADA: New laws lift tampon tax, restore some voting rights

Department of Energy secretly shipped plutonium from South Carolina to Nevada

Nevada Army National Guard ends lease of Camp Stead after 50 years. The land is owned by the city of Reno and was leased at one dollar per year, but don’t think it saved state taxpayers any money. Official reports say the state Military Department spent millions of tax-dollars, including $4-million in just the past ten years, upgrading the property. The lease was allowed to expire because the property is part of the Reno-Tahoe Airport, and the Federal Aviation Administration says the land must be used for airport operations.

NEW HAMPSHIRE: He Disparaged the Police on Facebook. So They Arrested Him.

criminal investigation of Salem deputy chief

NEW MEXICO: Leftist liberal state rated worst for raising a family

NEW YORK: a private investigator, who used to be a cop, now fights for people accused of crimes because he knows first-hand that the justice system is bull-shit!

More proof New York is anti-American; New gun-control laws in New York: Find out what is planned six years after the SAFE Act

For proof how paranoid NYC is, taxpayer dollars being spent on having New York Army National Guard conduct Operation Empire Shield “…patrolling through Penn during a Multi-Agency Super Surge, a mission where multiple law enforcement agencies have a very strong show of Force and work in a Unified, collaborative Effort to share intelligence, best practices, relevant information in a Unified effort to detect, deter and defeat terrorism.”