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 Originally Posted by poop
Or because they tend to face a lot of harrassment from the police.
You know, if you are regularly hassled by police, you can complain about it. Most people have absolutely no interaction with police in a normal day. People get pulled over for whatever reason, the vast majority of people are compliant and, while probably slightly annoyed, don't consider this to be an unacceptable breach of freedom. The vast majority of people who attract regular police attention tend to deserve that attention. Those that don't, here's a useful link... https://policeconduct.gov.uk/complai...make-complaint
That's great if someone is very slowly committing a murder or whatever.
This is deliberately naive. The vast majority of calls for cops are going to be non-murder crimes, where being there in two minutes is possible, and better than being there in five minutes. Not sure why you're trying to belittle this point. Having a spread of cops around a city is obviously efficient policing when it comes to rapid response. And you surely understand that rapid response is important.
Most calls they get are probably for accidents. They ned to be there fast to close roads, secure the crash scene, breathalise people before they fuck off, perhaps provide first aid. We've had two accidents outside our house in the last six months, on both occasions the same cop turned up within two minutes. It's not like they'r useless when on patrol.
Most crimes are either over by the time the cops get there, or they aren't urgent.
I don't think this is true. Not in a city. I'm in the countryside and still see response times of two minutes to a accident. My friend, a taxi driver, witness an incident in town where some guy seemed to be brandishing s shotgun. Withing two minutes again, there were armed police on the scene. Armed fucking police in a small town in two minutes. I think we're near a base, but the point is, police are regularly able to respond to urgent calls in good enough time to intervene. And the fact they are sometimes not able to respond fast enough, that's no reason to say "well sit at the station instead of driving around". Even if they only react to 20% of crimes in fast enough time, that's better than 0%.
I'm talking about regular patrols, not crowd control. Sure if you have a mass of drunken people pouring out of the pubs at closing time, or out of a football match, have some cops around. The rest of the time, nah.
Ok, but crime happens at any time, accidents happen at any time, I'm talking about cities here where there are hundreds of thousands of people. Even small towns like mine need rapid response.
I think that's a big step. Maybe they could use some of that time they spend now aimlessly wandering around town to get some continuing training instead.
Sure, but if they're at training, they're not able to respond to calls.
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