Weirdly, I'm OK with the Gatorade purchase. That could have been given out during a heat wave in summer, out to marathon runners or something.
I don't know that i agree that civil asset forfeiture needs to be stopped, but it's certainly broken. Limit expenditures to public safety, if someone is found innocent of the crime it was seized in then they automatically get it back, etc.
If you find yourself falling victim to the procedure, having your own property stolen from you without any mind paid to due process, you might feel a bit differently. 😂 so may the odds be ever in your favor 👍
And rather than stealing from hard-working folks to buy some Gatorade, they could've just had water that day?
Then they would've purchased 9k worth of water. Bureaucracy isn't known for efficiency. I mean, yeah. The system is broken as fuck, everyone agrees on that. Everyone also has different and often contradictory ideas on how to unfuck it.
Thus, war.
Context matters. While some of the expenses on that list are clearly unnecessary luxuries (and some must surely be illegal), some (like the Gatorade) might actually make sense in context.