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[-] ture@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago

That's something I never got about cops in the US. Everywhere in Europe, there are always two cops per car, at least in the places I have been.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 33 points 1 year ago

It's to create the illusion that there's more cops than there really are. Same reason behind take home cars.

My city of about 300k people has about 30 cops patrolling at any given time.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

San Jose, California has some wild numbers perhaps like that.

Would you take more if you could? Assuming no reform, just more of the same.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 6 points 1 year ago

I think higher numbers would lead to reform on its own. When you're scraping by at the bare minimum, a lot of stuff gets overlooked just to maintain numbers.

More cops would make it a lot easier to have better standards, and raise the average competency level.

[-] Lennny@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Easier to terrorize minorities if you spread out.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago
[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

In Europe, it's exactly because they want witnesses, cops' words don't carry more weight than yours by default, so if they ticket you, they want at least two testimonies on their side.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Okay, but in the US they don't want to risk two cops messing up their witness testimony. Better to just have one, because a cop's word is law anyway.

[-] ture@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That sounds like even their leaders assume they're horribly stupid...

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