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You're definitely right that it's hard to compare them, but it seems likely to me that the FBI would shoot/kill all sorts of innocent people if there were like
by ksdale 6y ago
You're definitely right that it's hard to compare them, but it seems likely to me that the FBI would shoot/kill all sorts of innocent people if there were like 700,000 FBI agents instead of 35,000 and they did all the stuff that local police do...
- pas 6y agoCould be, I mean sure, it all depends on training, the institutional culture, etc. I'm simply not sufficiently familiar with the FBI to try to guess what would happen. But as many [ex-]police chiefs said, they already do too much, and unsurprisingly the budget for training and hiring qualified personnel is too small. (Though it seems that some manage to pay for "Warrior Training".) Basically every locally rendered service is suffering from the dreaded cost disease[0] in the US, and of course to make matters worse the labor share of income is down (and inequality is up), and so on. [0] http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-236-alex-tabarrok-on-why-are-the-prices-so-dmn-high.html http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-236-alex-tabarr...