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Re: Cafe Owners Support Anarchists, Deplore Police

|55555| Wrote:Fun facts about cops. Violent crime is down but arrest rates are the same. Why? Because if cops don't keep their arrest numbers up they lose their job. How much protecting they do is COMPLETELY irrelevant. It's like a game and you need to keep over a certain score monthly to continue. Traffic infraction? 1 point! Misdemeanor arrest? 2 points! Felony arrest? 3 points! Van full of felons? Goldmine! The guy in the article did the right thing even though he will inevitably lose a lot of business from this.

Definitely this. I was interviewing a state cop and he has a quota of tickets he has to hand out every couple of months. It's horse shit.
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