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Total assets seized per year, including valid seizures, is under $3b [1]. Total retail theft alone is well over $60b [2]. Adding in other crimes like employee
by SideQuark 4y ago
Total assets seized per year, including valid seizures, is under $3b [1].
Total retail theft alone is well over $60b [2]. Adding in other crimes like employee theft, fraud, property crimes, and so on puts total US cost from crime well into hundreds of billions.
So no, police don't steal more than traditional criminals.
[1] https://www.justice.gov/afp/reports-0 https://www.justice.gov/afp/reports-0
[2] https://www.rila.org/focus-areas/public-policy/study-retail-theft-balloons-to-over-68-billion https://www.rila.org/focus-areas/public-policy/study-retail-...
- Kye 4y agoI'm not saying you're wrong, but you picked the most biased sources possible. [1] is reported by the people doing the thieving. [2] wants to maximize sympathy from the public and payouts from insurance. And it doesn't actually affect the point.
- SideQuark 4y agoPresent other evidence then. If your entire claim is wrong, and it's not even close, it affects the point. There's many, many sources for numbers just like these. I've found none even coming close to your statement. If you based it on some solid evidence, present it. If you just completely made it up, admit it. When your world view is made of false claims and feelings and you ignore actual evidence, don't be surprised when people that do prefer evidence won't believe you.
- Kye 4y ago$6B of thieving every year by people who are supposed to stop crime is plenty to call it. That's your own number. It should be zero billion. Six of them should be a national crisis.
- TheHappyOddish 4y ago[flagged]
- Kye 4y agoThis isn't football. There are no goalposts. I acknowledged I was off, but asserted there is no okay amount of theft by cops. And if there were, $6B/year is well above it.
- SideQuark 4y ago[flagged]
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