While headlines tend to focus on falling clearance rates in large liberal cities, the decline occurred nationwide in both red and blue cities, counties and states. The violent crime clearance rate, for example, fell considerably between 2019 to 2022 in big cities, which tend to be led by Democrats, as well as in small cities and suburban and rural counties, which tend to be led by Republicans.
They don’t even do that…
At most they’ll do the paperwork to get any video footage from private business, but for the most part unless that randomly happens to see you breaking the law you’ll never get caught.
They tried a “slowdown strike” a couple years ago, and realized they really could just not do anything and still get paid. Even better, higher crime rates means more overtime. Not just from the force, but businesses afraid of being robbed.
Cops can get paid 100/hr to sit outside of a liquor store in a cop car and burn gas all night their department pays for.
Very few people are dumb enough to rob that store while the cop is there, so there’s 0% risk. Cops just sit on their phones the whole time.
They have every incentive in the world for crime to bad as possible.
I’ve got a black neighbor who put it best. “They’re called police because ‘n----r control’ would be too obvious.”
That’s racist! As a white person I have also been harassed by the police. They are indiscriminate with their discrimination. How dare you make assumptions.
I’m white and have been illegally searched and detained by the police and had property damaged in the process.
Let’s not pretend that’s a remotely normative experience for white people compared to people of color. My parents never had to sit down and have the talk with me about the police.
I’m white, and my father damn well talked to me about the police. He told me to be polite and cooperative until they ask to search my shit or want to ask questions. Until that point, it’s, “Yes, officer”, “No, officer”, and “It won’t happen again, officer”. But if they go to search or want to ask questions, it’s “Officer, I do not consent to a search” and “Officer, I stand on my Fifth Amendment right to remain silent”.
Yes, but that’s not a normative discussion for most white families. It is for most black families.
I had an outlier experience as have you, but that doesn’t change the role racism and bias play in policing.
Nor does it change the role class and bias play in policing. My family might have been white, but it was poor white trash. If your family wasn’t poor enough for you to need a lesson in how to talk to pigs so that they don’t beat the shit out of you, then bully for you. But don’t tell you me you know shit about most white people. You don’t know any more than I do.
You and I have the option of “cleaning up nice” and avoiding that kind of harassment. The richest black people in the United States do not have that privilege. Literally.
It was just a joke.
You and your parents are class ignorant if you think the role of police in American society has anything to do with skin color. It is to protect Ruling Class property interests first and foremost rejecting that reality makes you a fool at best, and a class enemy at worse.
OK - you’re right that the entire role of the police is to protect the propertied interests of this world.
However, that is accomplished through the systemic abuse of race as well as class. The people who choose to become police are filtered by a determination to enforce policies which are at their core racist. Even the police who are themselves non-white are often the most violent against other non-white citizens.
Fuck off with your self-righteousness. I was quoting a neighbor who saw shit from their own perspective. Doesn’t mean I agree with it. Frankly, I think Body Count had it right when they wrote “No Lives Matter”.
Okay dude, chill. It was meant as a joke.
Dude, this is the Fediverse. I’ve heard similar sentiments from people who actually meant it. I’m sorry I mistook you for one of them.
It was a joke because you put light to it and they didn’t like the shadow it cast. Had there been no shadow, no light, there would be no remorse.
Maybe, but for whatever reason I felt like being gracious.
I once had a video of someone committing a felony and I wanted to press charges. He got arrested a couple days later on unrelated charges. I called the cops and told them that they have someone in jail who I have on video committing a felony and I want to press charges. Their answer was pretty much “tough shit”. They’re definitely no Columbo!
I believe you would need to contact the district attorney for that.