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Given that 99% of the crimes are committed by repeat offenders, a simple dusting for fingerprints (costs pennies) could likely identify the culprit. But they do
by hcknwscommenter 2y ago
Given that 99% of the crimes are committed by repeat offenders, a simple dusting for fingerprints (costs pennies) could likely identify the culprit. But they don't bother. And they act like we've seen too many movies/tv shows. But when an "interesting" crime happens they do in fact dust for fingerprints (cheap!) and do all sorts of swabbing and testing (expensive). The police are lazy in CA especially. And yet they are also extremely well paid in CA. Someday, hopefully, this will change.
- mcny 2y agoI’m not holding my breath. Things won’t change until there’s a price to pay for corruption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Smith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Smith
- ForOldHack 2y agoThere is so much more: https://www.kqed.org/news/11988510/case-of-former-san-jose-police-union-official-charged-with-attempting-to-import-illegal-drugs-could-resolve-by-august https://www.kqed.org/news/11988510/case-of-former-san-jose-p...
- Angostura 2y agoThe dust isn’t the expensive bit
- Spooky23 2y agoRemember the DA is part of the equation. For low priority crime, there’s a lot of risk with using fingerprints. They won’t take a case they may not win.
- sokoloff 2y ago> simple dusting for fingerprints (costs pennies) If a cop is making $30/hr, and we allow "pennies" to be as much as $0.25, they would have to complete the entire dusting for fingerprints process in 30 seconds.