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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.

[–] just_another_person 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool. If you can't pay your thugs to be your mob, and your usual mob thugs are dead, what are you left with?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, he can’t threaten Russians with nukes… surely

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

History would say, yes he can.

Russia has some areas that are so polluted with radiactive waste, they will probably remain so far beyond mankins history on earth.

Directly dropping nukes on them, who knows, Tsar Bomba had a larger blast radius than they expected and while detonated in a low population area, Russia was never really concerned with making sure it was a no population area.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Russia was never really concerned with making sure it was a no population area

"It's a no population area now" ~Russia, probably

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly, I feel like people are going after the wrong issue.

Russia had a sudden uptick in people who've experienced violent combat. US history shows that these people are, on average, less stable and more violent than usual.

Crime enforcement is going down, but a large part of that is because crime is going up.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It is just an opinion article without any meaningful statistics from country fighting Russia.

BBC is sponsored be UK government.

It is nothing but propaganda from UK.

[–] cuntonabike 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tbh, that headline could just as well be about police in the UK.