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> For one, they are lazy as hell How do you know they are lazy and don't just have an excessive # of crimes to handle?

• nyc_data_geek1 4y ago
  Have you ever met and spoken at length with a cop? They're #1 concern is billing enough overtime and securing a cushy gig
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  • askiiart 4y ago
    I won't imply any opinions here, because this is far outside my realm of knowledge, but I will say that a sample size of 1 isn't too good.
• iudqnolq 4y ago
  The cops have a pervasive misallocation of resources from the top down. For example, US police eventually come up with enough evidence for prosecutors to start proceedings only in about 50% of murder cases [1]. Yet police departments spend very little of their time working on murder cases. [2] Assuming you believe police investigating murders is valuable, I don't see how you can think police should be wasting time on broken taillight stops when they're failing that badly at it. (If the cops can't be reassigned they should be fired and their salaries used to pay cops who can) [1] Technically I'm describing the murder clearance rate, but I use this phrasing to avoid the common and incorrect implication that a cleared murder means it's necessary actually "solved" [2] There's no great metric for this. Assuming a police officer who just filed an incident report about a traffic stop for a broken taillight probably wasn't working on a murder case immediately before we can use incident reporting data. For ex, https://data.sfgov.org/d/wg3w-h783/visualization https://data.sfgov.org/d/wg3w-h783/visualization
• bmitc 4y ago
  Because I communicated with them.