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It’s not “do your job”: it’s recognizing that in a large city certain types of crime aren’t significant enough for police intervention. Frankly, that’s fine by
by owenmarshall 6y ago
It’s not “do your job”: it’s recognizing that in a large city certain types of crime aren’t significant enough for police intervention.
Frankly, that’s fine by me: putting enough police in place to investigate every incident of property crime would be exceptionally wasteful and would drive up overpolicing of certain communities to a ridiculous and dangerous degree. All I really needed was that report for insurance, after all.
- triceratops 6y ago> putting enough police in place to investigate every incident of property crime would be exceptionally wasteful and would drive up overpolicing of certain communities to a ridiculous and dangerous degree. Making them prioritize burglaries or robberies without increasing their manpower might force them to reallocate resources from overpolicing certain communities to doing actual, useful work that makes everyone safer. Sounds like a win-win to me. But then again, I'm not an expert. Maybe the amount of labor allocated to investigating property crimes currently is appropriate and increasing that might take focus away from violent crimes.