Just with rent and expenses. I'm thankfully pretty healthy and don't have dependents, but things are expensive these days, and wages have not proportionally increased.
That tiny bit of breathing room would reduce my stress substantially.

120$ million on a cop playground doesn't help me at all. We spend so much money on police already, and it doesn't seem to have much effect on making things safer. This budget should be slashed immensely and spent on genuine provable community benefit.

I'd appreciate them focusing first on providing training along the lines of "don't terrorize and abuse the community" before building the training facility. You do good, and THEN you get the reward.

I bet this proposal is dead, it's just nobody in a position to make that clear has the heart or guts to tell the cops yet.

Neither do most of my posts lol, but I'm flattered.

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Oh, hello again. You know this thread doesn’t have anything to do with John Fetterman right?

How?

>It’s a state of the art, top of the line facility they have no pressing need for, so I’d say the comparison to a resort is pretty apt.

Nemacolin, the famous state of the art, top of the line training facility.

$3,000 would change my whole life.

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It’s a state of the art, top of the line facility they have no pressing need for, so I’d say the comparison to a resort is pretty apt.

I love that you bring up cost overruns and inflation, when my entire comment was about how this facility is not needed. We can easily avoid the inflation on this project by not building it. Would much rather deal with ballooning costs on projects that will actually positively impact the residents of this city directly.

I've seen people in this sub refer to "active duty cops" like they're soldiers and not just regular people with a job like the rest of us.

The city is currently parking ambulances and dump trucks on millions of dollars worth of Strip District property. How about start with the low hanging fruit and relocate that, and use the process from selling the land towards the training facility?

And $120 million!? Are they building a skyscraper?

There are some cities where the cops get 40 or 45 percent of the total budget and people seems to be ok with that.

Cops are super citizens and they can get away with virtually anything, so they will be pushing further and further.

Cost overruns have always been the reality for big government projects.

Plus we can't ignore the unfortunate reality that costs for everything have ballooned between when the project was initially planned, and now. The city isn't immune to the inflationary conditions we've all been dealing with.

> Nemacolin for cops

Is there any indication that the proposed Pittsburgh project is needlessly "luxurious" or are activists just lazily parroting the talking points from a controversy in another city?

> Former Pittsburgh mayor Bill Peduto initially proposed relocating police and emergency services headquarters, the police training academy, animal control, and the city’s vehicle repair shop to the Lincoln-Lemington site. Current Mayor Ed Gainey’s spokesperson Maria Montaño tells City Paper the scope of the project has since narrowed to focus on police training facilities, and that, despite the reduction in scope, the estimated cost of the project remains over $120 million.

When this project was first proposed, it was going to cost $90 million dollars and Dan Gilman said part of the money would come back to the city by getting rid of expensive leases held by the city to store large vehicles and house other departments.

So now, let me get this right. . .the project has increased its cost by $30 million AND now won’t be a facility for other departments as originally promised? We’re building a $120 million Nemacolin for cops when the city can’t fix our bridges or fill potholes?

Fuck all of this shit. This kind of nonsense is why our taxes are so high and we get nothing in return. If the other city services don’t need to be consolidated and can be jettisoned from this plan, then the police don’t need a shining murder mansion on the hill just for them.

I mean it's AHN and not UPMC, but is there really much difference these days?

I’m just always so nervous looking for a group of people to play with. Anxiety about a pushy DM or because I don’t know how to play other party members being annoyed with me

Nah. If there is a person who shot someone and is still on the run and could potentially have shot others or could be in the process of shooting others prior to law enforcement arriving, it's considered an active shooter event. It's literally the protocol that was followed by businesses during the lockdown. Maybe you should go down there and tell them all they need to change their protocols because it doesn't align with your definition.

Do you mean the Oval, which would have been a South Park Rib Cook off, usually labor day weekend, not sure when they stopped in the 90s /transferred to the 3 rivers parking lot.

Or the South Park Ampitheatre, which would have been one of the Allegheny County summer concerts - grassy hillside, beyond the basketball courts headed towards the South Park HS.

Pitiful lineup for a $109+.

You should probably look up the definition of active shooter.

Emergency potty or just other potty ?

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I toured a house in SQ hill and the basement looked just like this