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I have a question nobody has ever been able to answer: why doesn’t the police department function like the fire department? How much sense would it make if we paid fire fighters to drive around neighborhoods looking for fires.
Police patrols have not always been a thing. For a a very long time crimes were solved by someone calling the cops when they saw a crime and someone would come investigate. That’s actually still how crimes with actual victims are solved.
How often do you think a cop is walking down the road and he just comes across a murder?

*not counting the murders that cops commit themselves.
Police patrols do not solve crimes, they create them. Police don’t patrol wealthy neighborhoods, they monitor poor people and people of color. It is an armed occupation.
Police should be hanging out at the station sliding down poles and cleaning and whatever else fire fighters do in their station until it’s time to solve an actual crime. Change my mind.
PS: traffic cops are different. They still suck but ya that’s different and I would argue also not super super necessary.
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