Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoThe police need this for...?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square256fedilinkarrow-up1978arrow-down19cross-posted to: texas@lemmy.world
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minus-squarePriorityMotif@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·6 months agoCrime rate just means people who are arrested. They can increase or decrease it if they want to.
minus-squareEatATaco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·6 months agoWait…you think that if someone gets murdered, but they don’t arrest anyone, this doesn’t go into the crime rate?
minus-squarePriorityMotif@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoYou man someone had an accident? This is a safe place to live, we’ve never had anything like that happen here.
minus-squareEatATaco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·6 months agoSo you really think that is how it works? Wow.
minus-squarePriorityMotif@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agohttps://youtu.be/Jpmc3VeJZXg http://www.crime-free-association.org/about_crime_free.htm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon_freezing_deaths https://youtu.be/lyRkoKTh6cs https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvg7ba/instead-of-helping-homeless-people-cities-are-bussing-them-out-of-town https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town
minus-squareEatATaco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·6 months agoWhat is this gishgallop? Care to summarize why these links support your claim that if there is no arrest, it’s not reported as a crime?
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·6 months agoDo you think cops who are buying that sort of shit are reluctant to arrest people?
minus-squareaudalics@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·6 months agoThey might prefer other methods of “executing” justice
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoCommon for agencies to have internal ticket and arrest quotas for their officers and to promote based on number of arrests by officer. Consequentially, a change in the quota can result in a “crime wave” as the number of arrests rise. It is not uncommon for surges in arrests to occur during campaign season, as police departments lobby for bigger budgets and more manpower.
Crime rate just means people who are arrested. They can increase or decrease it if they want to.
Wait…you think that if someone gets murdered, but they don’t arrest anyone, this doesn’t go into the crime rate?
You man someone had an accident? This is a safe place to live, we’ve never had anything like that happen here.
So you really think that is how it works? Wow.
https://youtu.be/Jpmc3VeJZXg
http://www.crime-free-association.org/about_crime_free.htm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatoon_freezing_deaths
https://youtu.be/lyRkoKTh6cs
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvg7ba/instead-of-helping-homeless-people-cities-are-bussing-them-out-of-town
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town
What is this gishgallop? Care to summarize why these links support your claim that if there is no arrest, it’s not reported as a crime?
Do you think cops who are buying that sort of shit are reluctant to arrest people?
They might prefer other methods of “executing” justice
Common for agencies to have internal ticket and arrest quotas for their officers and to promote based on number of arrests by officer.
Consequentially, a change in the quota can result in a “crime wave” as the number of arrests rise. It is not uncommon for surges in arrests to occur during campaign season, as police departments lobby for bigger budgets and more manpower.