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Russia police crisis: Burned out, disappointed and demoralised (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Russia's police force is in crisis, with officers are quitting to become taxi-drivers and couriers.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hard to run a police state with no police?

[–] rtxn 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, that's when they bring in the famously well-behaved and rational military to supplement the police force.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they gonna need to learn necromancy to bring them

[–] rtxn 3 points 1 year ago

Or draft more civilians, more likely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

With what spare troops, exactly? They’ve been sending any spare units they can find straight to the wood chipper that is the Ukraine war. The Russians don’t have any logistical flexibility to speak of at this point.