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In spite of skyrocketing US police budgets, cities' murder clearance rates are plummeting.
(lemmy.ml)
Article : https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/1172775448/people-murder-unsolved-killings-record-high
Another graph on budgets
They should get a fixed amount per crime solved.
Payment varies on the severity of the crime.
You understand why that will incentivize the wrong things, right?
Put another way: take a gander at Japan’s criminal justice system. You don’t want that.
I don't know much about the legal system in Japan but they have a higher clearance rate than US cops right?
"Sprinkle some crack on the body and arrest the nearest homeless person, I've got my eye on a new camaro"
Is that how the justice system works in Japan?
Officially? No.