(January 3, 2017 at 12:39 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Stops have fallen by 80% and people are wondering "why?"
Here's why:
Quote:The Chicago PD is under investigation by the Justice Department. And after a threat by the American Civil Liberties Union to sue the department for racial profiling, cops have been ordered to be more selective about who they stop and are required to write a detailed, two-page report on each one.
A detailed, two-page report on each stop, while it sounds good in theory, is necessarily going to reduce stops. If nothing else, it's damned hard to make a stop while you're writing a report.
Apparently the boys in blue are having a hissy fit because they can't shoot people on sight any more.
It's also time to dispose of the notion that cops stop crime. Cops show up after the fact of a crime to "investigate." * Unlike TV where the show has to last for an hour, less commericials and opening/closing credits, most crime involves people who know each other so it really isn't that hard to identify the suspects. Actual criminals are not masterminds who meticulously plan their actions. Usually they are just people who get pissed off about something and go berserk.
* unless it is a situation where the cops deliberately escalate a situation so as to create a crime.... in which case the so-called "investigation" is just a white-wash of their own actions.
