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>Ironically, if police would just do their job on property crime, they wouldn’t be so needed. if the last several years have taught us anything its that police

>Ironically, if police would just do their job on property crime, they wouldn’t be so needed. if the last several years have taught us anything its that police only do there jobs when they feel like it. whether that processing rape kits, stopping gunmen, stopping property theft, doesn't matter that wont do it.

seanmcdirmid 4y ago
When police are incredibly understaffed, they don’t do their job because they don’t have many to do it. Granted, everyone is understaffed these days, so it’s not just a police problem, and prosecutor/judges in my county make things harder for them by auto releasing the property-crime offenders they do catch (doesn’t matter if they have 10 warrants for times they didn’t return to court after being released from previous arrests). It’s not just the police’s fault that they are ineffective, the politicians (that appoint judges and prosecutors) and the people that vote for the politicians take a lot of the blame also. And even after that it’s just a bad time for labor and crime.
- justin66 4y ago
  > incredibly understaffed That's adorable.
  - KennyBlanken 4y ago
    Yeah, our court system is vastly underfunded...police generally aren't, though some departments are having enormous difficulty finding qualified people who want to work for them. Ironically and sadly, it becoming such a hated profession means we really don't want the people who are willing to do it. It's a grave they dug themselves, though.
- smegger001 4y ago
  These problems predate the pandemic and fallowing recession, trying to blame it on the immediate labor shortage is unreasonable. And since when has being weak on crime every gotten a judge of prosecutor elected in this country? Politicians go out of their way as a mater of course to look tough on crime to the point that it a problem of its own. no offense intended, (maybe you have some inside knowledge and perspective that I don't) but this seems to be a little disingenuous to say the least.
KennyBlanken 4y ago
Police do not decide what rape kits are processed, prosecutors do. There are a variety of reasons kits are not processed, including the victim not cooperating, the accused confesses or dies in prison, there turns out to not be a case (such as: victim claims Bob raped them, but Bob was at dinner with someone else and his phone/credit card records confirm it, and so on.) Prosecutors don't just go "fuck women, don't test these kits lying around!" despite what you might be led to believe by a lot of folks trying to generate outrage.

seanmcdirmid 4y ago

When police are incredibly understaffed, they don’t do their job because they don’t have many to do it. Granted, everyone is understaffed these days, so it’s not just a police problem, and prosecutor/judges in my county make things harder for them by auto releasing the property-crime offenders they do catch (doesn’t matter if they have 10 warrants for times they didn’t return to court after being released from previous arrests). It’s not just the police’s fault that they are ineffective, the politicians (that appoint judges and prosecutors) and the people that vote for the politicians take a lot of the blame also. And even after that it’s just a bad time for labor and crime.

justin66 4y ago
> incredibly understaffed That's adorable.
- KennyBlanken 4y ago
  Yeah, our court system is vastly underfunded...police generally aren't, though some departments are having enormous difficulty finding qualified people who want to work for them. Ironically and sadly, it becoming such a hated profession means we really don't want the people who are willing to do it. It's a grave they dug themselves, though.
smegger001 4y ago
These problems predate the pandemic and fallowing recession, trying to blame it on the immediate labor shortage is unreasonable. And since when has being weak on crime every gotten a judge of prosecutor elected in this country? Politicians go out of their way as a mater of course to look tough on crime to the point that it a problem of its own. no offense intended, (maybe you have some inside knowledge and perspective that I don't) but this seems to be a little disingenuous to say the least.

KennyBlanken 4y ago

Police do not decide what rape kits are processed, prosecutors do. There are a variety of reasons kits are not processed, including the victim not cooperating, the accused confesses or dies in prison, there turns out to not be a case (such as: victim claims Bob raped them, but Bob was at dinner with someone else and his phone/credit card records confirm it, and so on.) Prosecutors don't just go "fuck women, don't test these kits lying around!" despite what you might be led to believe by a lot of folks trying to generate outrage.