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Italians are literally braver than cops (hexbear.net)
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[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Also, cops have a way more important job

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[–] original_ish_name@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Then explain who would stop murderers otherwise

[–] ThisMachineKillsFascists@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Cops cause as many murders as they stop lol

[–] eatmyass@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

We’d have a lot less murderers running around if cops were off the streets

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Internal affairs?

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Cops don't really stop murders, they at best arrest the guilty after the murders have been done. But then if you actually look into the number of murder cases that are solved, it turns out they kind of don't really even do that very well.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

cops don't stop murderers, in the vast majority of cases, (all crimes not just homicide) they turn up afterwards.

they direct CSI and then hand over the case to homicide detectives (who are under pressure to deliver results like some kind of salesman, but that's another conversation)

less than 0.3% of officers are in homicide to begin with.

[–] original_ish_name@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's an example

Btw, I robbed your house and installed Arch on your router

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

It's a bad example, and you'll be hard pressed to find a good one that proves your point. Cops (in the US at least) rarely prevent crime before it happens. Hell, their investigations after the fact rarely even result in convictions. Most of the time a cop is involved with something, it's because another cop asked them to. A very very very small portion of their work hours goes towards actually responding to crimes in progress.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/police-are-not-primarily-crime-fighters-according-data-2022-11-02/

[–] Archlinuxforever@lemmy.3cm.us -1 points 2 years ago

Man, you just triggered every single seething hexbear user. They will be crawling out of their caves to yell insults at you now.

[–] Archlinuxforever@lemmy.3cm.us -1 points 2 years ago

Why is it so easy to predict when someone is a hexbear user? You guys have such a massive hive mind.