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A 30% solution rate for homicides is abysmal. For rapes, you have to discount the solution rate by the reporting rate. And those are the university educated pol
by Zigurd 6y ago
A 30% solution rate for homicides is abysmal. For rapes, you have to discount the solution rate by the reporting rate. And those are the university educated police detectives. Then there is the problem of uniformed patrol cops who abuse people without probable cause and beat a fair number of them resulting in high rates of complaints. On top of that they get petulant about the complaints against them.
- Stupulous 6y agoA 30% solution rate is great when you're asking whether it happens at all. Certainly we can agree that the number should be higher, but, until you propose an alternative, I can't imagine that the answer is taking money away from the people who are doing the solving. You asked whether police solve crimes and whether that matters to people, and you gestured at the existence of alternatives. I answered your two questions, and you didn't contest those answers. And I asked what those alternatives might be. I guess what I'm saying is I don't know why you're talking about the complaint rate for patrol cops now.