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 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's an example

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

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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