Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoThe police need this for...?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square255fedilinkarrow-up1978cross-posted to: texas@lemmy.world
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minus-squareEatATaco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoWait…you think that if someone gets murdered, but they don’t arrest anyone, this doesn’t go into the crime rate?
minus-squarePriorityMotif@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoYou man someone had an accident? This is a safe place to live, we’ve never had anything like that happen here.
minus-squareEatATaco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoSo you really think that is how it works? Wow.
minus-squarePriorityMotif@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agohttps://youtu.be/Jpmc3VeJZXg http://www.crime-free-association.org/about_crime_free.htm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon_freezing_deaths https://youtu.be/lyRkoKTh6cs https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvg7ba/instead-of-helping-homeless-people-cities-are-bussing-them-out-of-town https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town
minus-squareEatATaco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoWhat is this gishgallop? Care to summarize why these links support your claim that if there is no arrest, it’s not reported as a crime?
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoDo you think cops who are buying that sort of shit are reluctant to arrest people?
minus-squareaudalics@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoThey might prefer other methods of “executing” justice
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoCommon for agencies to have internal ticket and arrest quotas for their officers and to promote based on number of arrests by officer. Consequentially, a change in the quota can result in a “crime wave” as the number of arrests rise. It is not uncommon for surges in arrests to occur during campaign season, as police departments lobby for bigger budgets and more manpower.
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Wait…you think that if someone gets murdered, but they don’t arrest anyone, this doesn’t go into the crime rate?
You man someone had an accident? This is a safe place to live, we’ve never had anything like that happen here.
So you really think that is how it works? Wow.
https://youtu.be/Jpmc3VeJZXg
http://www.crime-free-association.org/about_crime_free.htm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon_freezing_deaths
https://youtu.be/lyRkoKTh6cs
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvg7ba/instead-of-helping-homeless-people-cities-are-bussing-them-out-of-town
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town
What is this gishgallop? Care to summarize why these links support your claim that if there is no arrest, it’s not reported as a crime?
Do you think cops who are buying that sort of shit are reluctant to arrest people?
They might prefer other methods of “executing” justice
Common for agencies to have internal ticket and arrest quotas for their officers and to promote based on number of arrests by officer.
Consequentially, a change in the quota can result in a “crime wave” as the number of arrests rise. It is not uncommon for surges in arrests to occur during campaign season, as police departments lobby for bigger budgets and more manpower.