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As NPR is the source of this story and I’m too lazy to look up actual statistics… They had a story a week or so ago about how all crime is up and speculated th

As NPR is the source of this story and I’m too lazy to look up actual statistics… They had a story a week or so ago about how all crime is up and speculated that the police are less likely to interact with the public because they’re afraid the encounter will escalate and they will end up getting prosecuted for doing their job. Think they even had an “expert” to back their claim. So what you get is police who won’t do their job out of fear of retaliation and people seeing there are no consequences for their actions just doing whatever they want. And, of course, the current narrative is the police are “silent quitting” in protest because who else are they going to blame?

Zigurd 3y ago
Low solution rates are nothing new. So is the lack of causality between police funding, crime, and police effectiveness. TBF another poster pointed out that hiring more detectives is effective, and that's plausible. It's too bad nobody has the political will to get rid of and rebuild whole PDs. That's what it will take to get rid of bad cops.