• Baylahoo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is one of those instances where it seems that cops are contributing to crime in an area where the ambient crime doesn’t cover it up as a rounding error. In that case they do more harm than good. That same ambient increase in high crime areas gets overcome by police force. The ideal state is that police don’t contribute to crime at all. Like the artical states, public trust in police is the only way that’s possible (the cause and effect go both ways here). That and actually, across the board, effective police work. They are paid the same as or more than engineers. We should expect the same or higher competency for on the job skill set. Otherwise, turn them loose like any respectable company would in the same situation.