NYC pays $17.5 million after two women (and a further class of people who were affected) whose religious freedoms were violated by the NYPD. The women were forced to remove their hijabs, and were threatened with prosecution.

That’s money that could have better gone to community improvements, not to pay for the NYPD malfeasance. The NYPD and the police union didn’t pay that amount. It’s coming out of taxpayers’ pockets to cover for the NYPD malfeasance (again).