An official inside the NYPD spent $60,000 to create a zumba dance studio for officers to exercise in. Ana Kasparian (The Point), Karomo Brown, and Becca Frucht hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
“An NYPD boss dropped $60,000 to turn an old printing room at Police Headquarters into a Zumba dance studio — in a move that infuriated top cop Bill Bratton, police sources told The Post on Tuesday.
It was just the latest oddball idea from Deputy Commissioner of Personnel Michael Julian, who lost his post in charge of training earlier this year for trying to arm cops with baby oil to deal with protesters and breath mints to clean up their foul language.
To set up the Latin-dance-inspired fitness center, Julian had workers install workout mats and flat-screen TVs in basement room S66, the sources said.”
Read more here: http://nypost.com/2015/05/27/demoted-nypd-head-dropped-60g-on-dance-studio-for-cops/
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