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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Ok then, so more technically, and more generously to police from a purely reactionary perspective of ‘they can only respond to reports’… they do an adequate job of clearing 4% of what actually gets reported to them.

I know that cops dont actually prosecute, I made that post before falling asleep, I was a bit loose with language.

Their role in the prosecution process is basically to be witnesses, to gather evidence for the trial.

And, unless I am misunderstanding this… ~82% of the arrests they do actually make … don’t result in convictions, and are thus ‘overarrests’ in some sense… as … you went to all the effort to make an arrest, and it turns out that no actual crime was committed?

Cops have an ~18% chance of making an arrest for a serious crime that actually sticks?

They have an ~82% likelihood that they are overpolicing, like by definition, when it comes to serious crimes?

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