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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The article specifically mentions deputies, and how they don't spend time on violent crime, but the article never mentions ONCE, detectives, whose sole job is investigating violent crime. I'm not pro-police in any way, but... yeah. Also it seems like this article was written by an angsty teenager with lines like:

The departments were mostly non-responsive to my questions.

Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco said the data -- which is self-reported -- is flawed. All four departments declined to answer specific questions about how officers spend their time, and didn’t provide contradictory information.

I'm all for criticizing the police, let's just write it a bit better next time, huh?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So traffic violations are something we no longer want to enforce then? Nearly 43000 deaths in 2021 from automobiles.. https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/traffic-crash-death-estimates-2022

When 3/4 of traffic stops are warnings you know most of them are just the typical person making dumb mistakes since warnings are typically only given to people with no recent record.

No idea why "resonable suspicion" crimes are such a big focus.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better roads help prevent crashes. People won't change just because they got a ticket. "Drive as fast as you can afford" is a warning I got when learning to drive. If all it is is a $300 ticket there are people who are more inconvenienced from being stopped than paying the fine. People don't care about car crashes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then you have to increase fines, make it a percentage of the person's income that hurts everybody equally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds to me like you just want to hurt people as opposed to fixing the problem.

You got to realize 100% of anything isn't feasible. Having better road engineering, and reducing the number of cars on the road will have results.

The drug wars stopped people doing drugs right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why does a traffic stop need to be done by a man with a gun, body armor, and the authority to kill?

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