>Stop putting police resources into catching people with a gram of weed or going 5 mph over the speed limit
>Start putting police resources into catching car thieves, muggers, vandals, and other criminals who actually have a negative impact on society
Is there any historical/cultural reason the police can't do this? Seems like an easy fix to their PR problem and a win for the populace as well.
Bike theft has a prosecution rate of near zero, imagine how many people would be more accepting of police presence if they knew it meant they didn't have to worry about their bike getting jacked while they're off shopping.
first thing makes more money
It doesn't make money, it loses money. But it's less difficult, dangerous, loses less money and also doesn't impinge on some business interests that may or may not have government backing.
>he doesn’t know about private prisons
About that…
A bike thief working in prison is just as profitable as a weed smoker working in prison, but locking up the bike thief actually has a distinct positive effect on society
Weed smokers don't go to prison, they take plea deals and get a week in county jail and community service
how do you respond to
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Do lefties really think prisons are full of people who had a gram of weed or were driving with a suspended license?
Prisons generally aren't, but jails definitely have a lot of people who aren't a danger to the public. There's a surprising number of people who were nabbed for things like driving with a license that was suspended for not paying court fees or fines (which aren't proportional to income in the USA, unlike in some countries) and who can't pay bail. Others are waiting for trial in overburdened courts.
second thing is racist, can't do that
Not really, it has less output of "results" since it takes longer to get an arrest or a case, it has a very high chance of spilling into other groups and it requires more man hours and thus more money. Not to mention police presence in non-low class neighborhoods is seen in a bad light since it just so turns out the middle abd upper class do not like police surveillance or presence in their living areas.
Pretty sure you’d get far less blacks arrested if you stopped arresting for petty drug amounts
mass recruit assassins from civilian police military and mafia and purge eugenocide all fvey species by citizenship and required DCLXVI
It's easier to catch the former and look like you're doing your job.
The problem is police themselves are defanged and are effectively just social workers that can arrest you if you get pissy with them.
Police are meant to be law enforcers who we agree can use violence to win fights against armed criminals. If you don't make them fighters but still give them the authority to detain, arrest, and get violent with others, they just default to going after weaker targets, namely the regular citizen who happens to have broken some random statutory offense.
Depends in the country
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>shoots you
Former us how they get money. Police only get funded if they are seen as "doing something". They are fricked either way and the public always ends up somehow wanting to arm the police up more or make then more "tough on crime". Basically the public are schizos.
On top of that the taxpayers b***h when they get the bill for increased police activity in anything because they honestly think some cop is gonna punch in extra hours to do some pointless shit the public asked for, for free. You just can't win.
Police are government employees. They get money whatever they do.
People notice the law isn't being enforced and everything is going to shit. Has that stopped the police from getting funded?
Do you think the public wants the police going after people for weed and writing speeding tickets or actually arresting criminals?
Your post really makes no sense.
>Do you think the public wants the police going after people for weed and writing speeding tickets or actually arresting criminals?
Yeah they do. That's why tough on crime is a platform so many politicians do to raise votes. In the US, Democrats and Republicans often liked championing that as one if their policies at various levels of government.
>Police are government employees. They get money whatever they do.
And their spending and funding is under public scrutiny
Yeah whenever the public is unhappy with government performance its funding is always promptly eliminated.