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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+(OP)
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.

>>runako+(OP)
Those are not mutually exclusive.

>>mrguyo+I2
Narrator: crime was not, in fact, out of control.

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

>>runako+(OP)
Crime is actually at its lowest point in 40 years, but you wouldn't know it looking at the constant fearmongering by legacy media and conservative politicians alike.

>>thranc+lf
As a person old enough to remember the War on Drugs, I can agree that people who think things are worse now must have spent the late '80s/early '90s sheltering in libraries or something.

>>mrguyo+I2
> Police just don't do their jobs.

So naturally, our police budgets increase every year.

>>Random+03
I’m not sure that I buy that argument but either way the data clearly shows crime has fallen consistently over the decades. Even over the last couple of years. This narrative that cities (of course only Democrat-dominated cities) are so crime ridden that they are basically under siege is completely manufactured.

The governor of my state went out of his way to ask Trump to come crack down on a few cities (all overwhelmingly or somewhat leaning blue) despite drastic drops in crime rates over the last five years. Ignoring the fact that he is the governor and has a super majority Republican legislature, meaning that ultimately he is saying “daddy Trump come save me I can’t do my job uwu,” he also very conspicuously left his home city off the list despite it sharing a similar population size and crime rate as another major city on the list.

It’s all a sham. The data does not bear their message out.

>>runako+Nk
It was also before the "if it bleeds, it leads" explosion of crime reporting starting in the 90s.