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On 5/29/2024 1:23 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:

>> About 300 of them showed up at Uvalde to stand around and do nothing
>> while the gunman took his time killing everyone, I don't see much
>> evidence that if 400 or a thousand had showed up the outcome would've
>> been much different.
>>
>> But the "good news" is that Biden loves police as much as anyone and
>> wants lots more cops, too.
>>
>> Policing is one of the few industries that gets more money the worse it
>> is at its job, an aberration that pure market theory seems at a loss to
>> explain.
> 
> So.... would you de-fund your local police?

I don't know if they do traffic detail work in the UK but they pay the 
local police here $100s an hour to stand around shooting the breeze and 
playing on their phones at roadwork sites. Clearly many dangerous 
criminals to be caught.

It would be better if the detail cops were actually good at directing 
traffic but half the time they're not even paying attention to that, either.