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I am pretty sure that nobody who says "we desperately need more cops" means "we desperately need more corrupt cops".
by veidr 12y ago
I am pretty sure that nobody who says "we desperately need more cops" means "we desperately need more corrupt cops".
- nervousvarun 12y agoI take your point but in fairness OP is definitely correct regarding a corrupt Nola police force. Definitely not a simple issue.
- dragonwriter 12y agoIf you don't deal with the problems that lead to the existing cops being corrupt before trying to add new cops, that's what you get. So if you say "we desperately need more cops" without including "we first desperately need to deal with police corruption", when your present police department is noted for corruption, you are implicitly saying you need more corrupt cops. Or, at least, that you need more cops even if they are as corrupt as the existing ones.
- nervousvarun 12y agoYeah sadly, it's the latter. Arbitrary numbers but if your cops are 50% corrupt and you suddenly have twice as many total cops you still then double the number of non-corrupt cops. Obviously that's wasteful but... Fixing deep-routed cultural corruption is obviously extremely difficult. So yeah, at this point I (and a lot of others who live here) would say we just need more cops because violent crime is increasing and the number of street cops out there is decreasing and that's just a bad combination. So many lesser of two evils at play here :(
- dllthomas 12y agoI don't think that's just wasteful. Depending on the nature of the corruption, one corrupt cop might do more harm than one honest cop can prevent.