“Overall, sheriff patrol officers spend significantly more time on officer-initiated stops – “#ProactivePolicing” in #LawEnforcement parlance – than they do responding to community members’ calls for help, according to the report. Research has shown that the practice is a fundamentally ineffective #PublicSafetyStrategy, the report pointed out.”

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/police-are-not-primarily-crime-fighters-according-data-2022-11-02/

Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data

A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives.

Reuters