I live in a city that's been defunded by economic circumstance. There are simply not enough blue bodies to harass people over the petty stuff. The cops focus

I live in a city that's been defunded by economic circumstance. There are simply not enough blue bodies to harass people over the petty stuff. The cops focus on violent crime and drug trafficking because staffing levels are low enough that there is a sufficient amount of "resume enhancing" crime like that to satisfy the needs of the department. Playing with MRAPs, harassing the citizenry on a hunch and perving through people's location data for no good reason is what departments that are well staffed enough to have idle hours do. Make no mistake, this is not a great environment to be a cop. You look at the department demographics and it's basically the young guys who will be up and out and being managed by a few old guys who are fresh out of fucks to give. I'm sure for people wrongly targeted by them there is little recourse but it doesn't seem like they spend a lot of time going off on people who've done little wrong. The caveat is that you are on your own for securing your property and the department basically laughs at the "standards of polite behavior and endangering the public" crimes that the HN crowd tend to take very seriously. Overall I'd give it a 9/10. I'm very happy with my department's performance so far as I can see it.