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Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 year ago by TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/news@beehaw.org

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To the surprise of no one, California cops spend most of their time harassing taxpayers via traffic stops instead of work on solving actual crimes.

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[–] grue@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yet another bad consequence of building our cities wrong. If we fixed the zoning code to make them walkable, we wouldn't "need" traffic stops in the first place.

It's amazing how car dependency is an underlying causal factor in nearly every problem in the US, from climate change, to obesity, to the housing crisis, to apparently even police misconduct.