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>>locopa+(OP)
I think bored cops are a much bigger threat to Democracy than most crime. It's ironic that the less crime and the more efficient policing the less free we become.

>>bjourn+nb
You don't deny that in the US, criminals do much more damage (death, injury, PTSD, destruction of property, unjust denial of use of property, the opportunity cost of avoiding certain places because of the danger of crime) than police do; do you?

In your answer, please stick to to concrete harms to actual people (living now or in the future) excluding any harm that is a harm only to an abstraction like Democracy or Freedom.

>>holler+VD
"in the US" Cause the US is the whole world? Cops may be less of a threat to Democracy in a third-world country, such as the US, precisely because rampant crime means they have less time to spend curtailing the freedoms of mostly law-abiding people.