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Russia police crisis: Burned out, disappointed and demoralised (www.bbc.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Russia's police force is in crisis, with officers are quitting to become taxi-drivers and couriers.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hard to run a police state with no police?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, that's when they bring in the famously well-behaved and rational military to supplement the police force.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

they gonna need to learn necromancy to bring them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Or draft more civilians, more likely.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 5 points 10 months ago

With what spare troops, exactly? They’ve been sending any spare units they can find straight to the wood chipper that is the Ukraine war. The Russians don’t have any logistical flexibility to speak of at this point.