!deleted488580@kbin.socialtoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•An Early Warning That Policing May Be in Decline | Police departments across the country are solving far fewer crimes than they did before 2020.
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1 year agoDo police actually solve crimes at all? Or are they basically doing legwork for prosecutors by gathering evidence to be used to prove a suspect’s guilt (when the cops don’t just summarily execute the suspect for being poor or black) or scare them into pleading guilty for a lesser sentence?
Why do it? For the same reason Mt. Everest is littered with human corpses, shit, and garbage. For the same reason there’s an American flag and a plaque immortalizing Richard fucking Nixon on the goddamned moon.
Because it’s there.