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Police agree with you on 3 out of 4

• epicureanideal 5y ago
  Yeah, the amount of "revenue collection" they do borders on theft I suppose.
• ashtonkem 5y ago
  That’s unreasonably generous to cops, IMO. They have a pretty long track record of doing all of those and getting away with it.
  • bigiain 5y ago
    To be fair, I'm _reasonably_ sure most cops don't do those things. Most cops just let it slide while their "bad apple" colleagues do those thing. And are therefore complicit in perpetuating them. So you're still right about it being unreasonably generous to all cops, even if not all of them do that shit.
    • ashtonkem 5y ago
      It’s hard to say given that the stats are poorly kept, but it’s currently estimated that 40% of cops commit domestic abuse. Given that that’s a crime, a serious one at that, it wouldn’t surprise me if over half of them commit more petty crimes like theft.
• tshaddox 5y ago
  And even for the most obvious ones that police agree with, how much of their resources and effort go towards investigating and actively preventing those crimes? Detective shows are popular, but isn't that sort of police work a vanishingly small portion of police budgets?