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I'm shocked
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.
This is almost certainly the case in the UK too - given the scale of police presence at protest marches, etc, and the tiny number of crimes being solved - less than 5% for house burglaries, for example, and less than 2% for rapes.
I fear we've fallen for a detective-fiction of what the police are doing - the reality is entirely different.
B. A. Balackus
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