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Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data | Reuters
> 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.
I feel like part of the reason many cities went so hard for cars is because road traffic itself is such copaganda. Pedestrians and cyclists are keenly aware that cars are super dangerous and regularly flout the law. Car UIs designed around power fantasies at the point of sale and militate against driver self-regulation. The streets are therefore full of serious danger without any accessible mechanism to promote the safety of vulnerable people.
Every anarchist on a bicycle is in favour of speed limits and there's no way to enforce those currently aside from the threat of state violence. Which cops are very happy to deliver.
By contrast people on public transport relate to each other as people. Cop intrusion comes from fare enforcement, but this is overcome by making everything free.
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