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B. A. Balackus Jul 29, 2023

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I'm shocked

Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data | Reuters

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

> 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.

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

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Lyle Solla-Yates Jul 29, 2023

@BigAngBlack “essentially wasting millions of public dollars” #safestreets #publicsafety #visionzero

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B. A. Balackus

@Lyle
I wish communities could choose whether or not to use/fund police in their neighborhoods. If rich people like em so much, let them fund the cops

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Suran Jul 29, 2023

@BigAngBlack
They can't?
I thought in the US #police was organized on the municipal level
Sheriffs being voted on.
Local police reporting to the elected mayor.
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@Lyle
#uspolotics

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B. A. Balackus Jul 29, 2023

@Suran
Well, theoretically, yeah. But it never works that simple. And that's not granular enough to address the discrepancies with use of police by location within smaller jurisdictions
@Lyle

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