it's often tempting to be like "wow yeah who could have possibly known about this" but really, it is nice to have empirical data reported about this, even if it is for the 100th time. hell, we should do it more often
"Police don’t solve serious or violent crimes w/any regularity, & spend very little time on crime control." They spend more "time conducting racially biased stops & searches of minority drivers, often wo reasonable suspicion, rather than 'fighting crime.'" www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives.
Ofc police officers don't fight crime. That's the whole point of the vigilante. We need to defund the police too.