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>>js2+(OP)
Police in the US do now have jobs others used to do. Big cities used to have more social workers to deal with street people and such. There were "the men in the white coats" who hauled crazies off to mental institutions. Political parties had more boots on the ground - in the days of machine politics, you could talk to the block captain about getting a job.

All those jobs were dumped on cops, who aren't that good at it.

Especially dealing with crazies and druggies, and having no good place to send them.

On the other hand, cops are too hard to fire. It's not like they're stack-ranked. The bottom few percent are not fired for underperforming. Bad cops are a minority, but they're not ex-cops soon enough.

>>Animat+yj
>Bad cops are a minority

And over represented on street duty because the specialty task force jobs, management and investigator roles are where the high achievers work their way to.