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submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's to create the illusion that there's more cops than there really are. Same reason behind take home cars.

My city of about 300k people has about 30 cops patrolling at any given time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

San Jose, California has some wild numbers perhaps like that.

Would you take more if you could? Assuming no reform, just more of the same.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I think higher numbers would lead to reform on its own. When you're scraping by at the bare minimum, a lot of stuff gets overlooked just to maintain numbers.

More cops would make it a lot easier to have better standards, and raise the average competency level.