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>>locopa+(OP)
Huge disconnect between these narratives:

- Crime is out of control, requiring deployment of active duty military to multiple cities.

- Police are so bored they are sifting through security cameras on fishing expeditions to maybe find someone accessing medical care.

>>runako+1n
There actually doesn't have to be a disconnect between the narratives.

It could be possible that crime is out of control because police are doing these things instead of their actual job.

Compare the efforts police will go through to play with their toys vs the efforts they will go through to actually solve crime.

Despite living in a literal panopticon where the cops can buy infinite tracking information on anyone and even on just a query, violent crime clearance rates are abysmal.

Police just don't do their jobs.

edit: I do not actually believe crime is out of control, because it is not. I believe that cops are bad actors and liars.

>>mrguyo+Jp
Narrator: crime was not, in fact, out of control.

https://projects.csgjusticecenter.org/tools-for-states-to-ad...