the UAE donated money to get an overseas cop posted there.

So the money went through this thing called the New York City Police Foundation,

a 501 C3 organization that is a quote unquote police booster.

This was set up in the late 1970s when the city was broke as a joke, right?

And the entire point was to give cops cops to buy cops gear that they needed.

I mean, this is when the NYPD didn't have money to fly detectives to like San Francisco

to pick up a fugitive, right?

They couldn't afford a plane ticket.

So they raised private funds to buy cops, bulletproof vest, to upgrade radios, cars,

so forth.

By the early 2000s, this thing has turned into a slush fund

that allows companies to donate to the police foundation, the police foundation, then turns

around and buys that gear and donates it to the police department, which not only gets around

public procurement rules, but let's be honest,

it kind of determines what sort of influence

the donors have over the department's operations and posture, right?

Wait, that seems like it's completely like a funnel for corruption.

It is.

And there's similar things,

there's similar foundations that exist in Atlanta.

The police foundation there is tied in

with the funding of the cop city program. And in LA, the police foundation there is how the department,

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