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[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 30 points 4 days ago

It's to create the illusion that there's more cops than there really are. Same reason behind take home cars.

My city of about 300k people has about 30 cops patrolling at any given time.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

San Jose, California has some wild numbers perhaps like that.

Would you take more if you could? Assuming no reform, just more of the same.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago

I think higher numbers would lead to reform on its own. When you're scraping by at the bare minimum, a lot of stuff gets overlooked just to maintain numbers.

More cops would make it a lot easier to have better standards, and raise the average competency level.

this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2024
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