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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Police solve something like less than 2% of reported crimes.

Even a libertarian can see this is fucking stupid, imagine a restaurant that gets 2% of its orders correct and served in a timely manner.

Police do not primarily exist to solve crimes.

They primarily exist as a goon/thug class to protect property and capital, all other behaviors and effects are ancillary.

If Police wanted to actually lessen crime, they’d either attack its root causes and use significant parts of their budgets to fund affordable housing and public schools, or massively reorient toward pursuing white collar crime, which is often of such a huge financial scale that it basically directly impoverishes society at a large scale.

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