Best Political Cartoons

[Ultimate Paragon]

I like the Mohammed cartoons where he's a sympathetic character who's sick of the nuts killing in his name. If I "Drew Mohammed" in protest, that would be my approach.

The ones about "The Pen/Pencil/Brush Is Mightier Than The Sword" is great, too.

Hello, I'm back with a new look, name and attitude. No more crazy from me. I'm ashamed of how I was last time.

Happy New year, everyone! How's everything? Startin' fresh here.

It's great to see you again!

[mellenORL]

Yay! Welcome back, Spuki....and from now on I'll say Barbarella. Cool avi.

[Sigmaleph]

Yeah, that "We're gonna do a work slow down - RAWR!!" thing shows just how brutally clueless a majority in the NYPD have become.

This has been bugging me for a while, until someone pointed out the (in hindsight) obvious:

Most important, the NYPD hasn’t “proved the opposite” of why they’re needed. They’re not trying to prove anything to the average citizen. What they’re trying to do is prove to the mayor and city government that they’re needed - and the reason the mayor and city government need them is that the fines they collect for minor offenses make up a lot of the city’s revenue. They’re probably doing a perfectly good job of proving to the mayor that he needs them for this. Our opinions are irrelevant.

[Barbarella]

Hello, I'm back with a new look, name and attitude. No more crazy from me. I'm ashamed of how I was last time.

Happy New year, everyone! How's everything? Startin' fresh here.

yay! welcome back, spuki! 

I like the Mohammed cartoons where he's a sympathetic character who's sick of the nuts killing in his name. If I "Drew Mohammed" in protest, that would be my approach.

The ones about "The Pen/Pencil/Brush Is Mightier Than The Sword" is great, too.

Hello, I'm back with a new look, name and attitude. No more crazy from me. I'm ashamed of how I was last time.

Happy New year, everyone! How's everything? Startin' fresh here.

It's great to see you again!

Yay! Welcome back, Spuki....and from now on I'll say Barbarella. Cool avi.

Thanks. I'm going to try extra-hard not to act like a nut. Glad to be here.

[mellenORL]

Yeah, that "We're gonna do a work slow down - RAWR!!" thing shows just how brutally clueless a majority in the NYPD have become.

This has been bugging me for a while, until someone pointed out the (in hindsight) obvious:

Most important, the NYPD hasn’t “proved the opposite” of why they’re needed. They’re not trying to prove anything to the average citizen. What they’re trying to do is prove to the mayor and city government that they’re needed - and the reason the mayor and city government need them is that the fines they collect for minor offenses make up a lot of the city’s revenue. They’re probably doing a perfectly good job of proving to the mayor that he needs them for this. Our opinions are irrelevant.

True, and it points out that the city has come to depend on the police essentially mugging citizens to get that income. And yet, I'd be curious to see by how much savings from fewer jail inmates to support offsets the current drop in fine revenue.

Need to find the fines revenue figures first, but there's a possible cost per inmate per year report of $168,000, or $460 a day per inmate. A big chunk of that would be labor and infrastructure overhead.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/nyregion/citys-annual-cost-per-inmate-is-nearly-168000-study-says.html?_r=0

I did find an article on NYC's IBO (Independent Budget Office) that discusses fine income in general, without delineating the fines generated by criminal charges or the stop and frisk crap that has so many people outraged.

http://ibo.nyc.ny.us/cgi-park/?p=733

Since the current NYPD slowdown includes the cops not ticketing for parking violations and littering, etc., the income loss for the City must be huge atm.

[SpaceProg]

Hello, I'm back with a new look, name and attitude. No more crazy from me. I'm ashamed of how I was last time.

Happy New year, everyone! How's everything? Startin' fresh here.

Welcome back.  Happy new year to you too.

[Svata]

As everyone else has said, welcome back.

[I am lizard]

Yeah, that "We're gonna do a work slow down - RAWR!!" thing shows just how brutally clueless a majority in the NYPD have become.

This has been bugging me for a while, until someone pointed out the (in hindsight) obvious:

Most important, the NYPD hasn’t “proved the opposite” of why they’re needed. They’re not trying to prove anything to the average citizen. What they’re trying to do is prove to the mayor and city government that they’re needed - and the reason the mayor and city government need them is that the fines they collect for minor offenses make up a lot of the city’s revenue. They’re probably doing a perfectly good job of proving to the mayor that he needs them for this. Our opinions are irrelevant.

Geez, the mayor will need to start making budget cuts because of this.
To bad there isn't some department with a massively inflated budget, perhaps one that routinly gets APCs and grenade launchers...

[Ultimate Paragon]

[Sigmaleph]

Yeah, that "We're gonna do a work slow down - RAWR!!" thing shows just how brutally clueless a majority in the NYPD have become.

This has been bugging me for a while, until someone pointed out the (in hindsight) obvious:

Most important, the NYPD hasn’t “proved the opposite” of why they’re needed. They’re not trying to prove anything to the average citizen. What they’re trying to do is prove to the mayor and city government that they’re needed - and the reason the mayor and city government need them is that the fines they collect for minor offenses make up a lot of the city’s revenue. They’re probably doing a perfectly good job of proving to the mayor that he needs them for this. Our opinions are irrelevant.

Geez, the mayor will need to start making budget cuts because of this.
To bad there isn't some department with a massively inflated budget, perhaps one that routinly gets APCs and grenade launchers...

The military? Because they are the ones providing their excess equipment to the police.

And while reducing their budget sounds like a great idea, I'm pretty sure the mayor can't do that.

[I am lizard]

Yeah, that "We're gonna do a work slow down - RAWR!!" thing shows just how brutally clueless a majority in the NYPD have become.

This has been bugging me for a while, until someone pointed out the (in hindsight) obvious:

Most important, the NYPD hasn’t “proved the opposite” of why they’re needed. They’re not trying to prove anything to the average citizen. What they’re trying to do is prove to the mayor and city government that they’re needed - and the reason the mayor and city government need them is that the fines they collect for minor offenses make up a lot of the city’s revenue. They’re probably doing a perfectly good job of proving to the mayor that he needs them for this. Our opinions are irrelevant.

Geez, the mayor will need to start making budget cuts because of this.
To bad there isn't some department with a massively inflated budget, perhaps one that routinly gets APCs and grenade launchers...

The military? Because they are the ones providing their excess equipment to the police.

And while reducing their budget sounds like a great idea, I'm pretty sure the mayor can't do that.

1. The NYPD has an annual budget of 4 billion dollars.

2. Sadly true.

[Ultimate Paragon]

Yeah, that "We're gonna do a work slow down - RAWR!!" thing shows just how brutally clueless a majority in the NYPD have become.

This has been bugging me for a while, until someone pointed out the (in hindsight) obvious:

Most important, the NYPD hasn’t “proved the opposite” of why they’re needed. They’re not trying to prove anything to the average citizen. What they’re trying to do is prove to the mayor and city government that they’re needed - and the reason the mayor and city government need them is that the fines they collect for minor offenses make up a lot of the city’s revenue. They’re probably doing a perfectly good job of proving to the mayor that he needs them for this. Our opinions are irrelevant.

Geez, the mayor will need to start making budget cuts because of this.
To bad there isn't some department with a massively inflated budget, perhaps one that routinly gets APCs and grenade launchers...

The military? Because they are the ones providing their excess equipment to the police.

And while reducing their budget sounds like a great idea, I'm pretty sure the mayor can't do that.

1. The NYPD has an annual budget of 4 billion dollars.

2. Sadly true.

Sad thing is, the military doesn't even want the money Congress is lavishing on them.

[Askold]

Yeah, that "We're gonna do a work slow down - RAWR!!" thing shows just how brutally clueless a majority in the NYPD have become.

This has been bugging me for a while, until someone pointed out the (in hindsight) obvious:

Most important, the NYPD hasn’t “proved the opposite” of why they’re needed. They’re not trying to prove anything to the average citizen. What they’re trying to do is prove to the mayor and city government that they’re needed - and the reason the mayor and city government need them is that the fines they collect for minor offenses make up a lot of the city’s revenue. They’re probably doing a perfectly good job of proving to the mayor that he needs them for this. Our opinions are irrelevant.

Geez, the mayor will need to start making budget cuts because of this.
To bad there isn't some department with a massively inflated budget, perhaps one that routinly gets APCs and grenade launchers...

The military? Because they are the ones providing their excess equipment to the police.

And while reducing their budget sounds like a great idea, I'm pretty sure the mayor can't do that.

1. The NYPD has an annual budget of 4 billion dollars.

2. Sadly true.

Sad thing is, the military doesn't even want the money Congress is lavishing on them.

The congress is throwing money and vehicles at the military because they want the money to go to the manufacturers and the military is forced to mothball brand new tanks and planes that they don't need.

...Although the marines are still using outdated stuff and have to wait for scraps from the other branches if I have understood correctly.

[dpareja]

[Askold]

Not quite a cartoon but a collection of remarks by Putin about other countries (some may have only been implied.)