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this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
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They don't even do that...
At most they'll do the paperwork to get any video footage from private business, but for the most part unless that randomly happens to see you breaking the law you'll never get caught.
They tried a "slowdown strike" a couple years ago, and realized they really could just not do anything and still get paid. Even better, higher crime rates means more overtime. Not just from the force, but businesses afraid of being robbed.
Cops can get paid 100/hr to sit outside of a liquor store in a cop car and burn gas all night their department pays for.
Very few people are dumb enough to rob that store while the cop is there, so there's 0% risk. Cops just sit on their phones the whole time.
They have every incentive in the world for crime to bad as possible.
That's racist! As a white person I have also been harassed by the police. They are indiscriminate with their discrimination. How dare you make assumptions.
Don't even fucking try... even in Brazil, where racism is a bit less rampant than the US, I've had police officers calmly ask me to not walk on the same walkway as the people they were about to search - I'm white, they weren't.