cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/50063990
Admittedly this is almost 20 year old data, but I doubt it’s much different today.
Credit to https://youtu.be/o8Btb1sGRK0 for showing me this chart.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/50063990
Admittedly this is almost 20 year old data, but I doubt it’s much different today.
Credit to https://youtu.be/o8Btb1sGRK0 for showing me this chart.
Honestly I think as a “regular citizen”, this is somewhat aligned with what I want the police to deal with? Like assault, robbery, murder, they’re somewhat dealt with. The big problem is with Rape, but theft being the vast majority of crime with the vast minority of effort, that’s totally fine.
I guess my views on police have strayed from the norm over the last several years. Just about the only style of policing I respect now is what Victor Cizanckas was trying to build in Menlo Park several decades ago.
The cops under him went back to the trend towards militarisation as soon as he was gone though, the roots of oppression run too deep for one man to change the culture.
What do I want from police? End the 1033 program and everything like it in other countries, divest all military equipment and uniforms, return to Peelian principles at a minimum or demilitarise entirely, ban police unions, and invest in struggling communities rather than funding cops to oppress them. And fire anyone who ever attended a David Grossman seminar and liked it. For starters.