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Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2015 8:00 pm
by GORDON
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news....st-year
Here's an interesting factoid about contemporary policing: In 2014, for the first time ever, law enforcement officers took more property from American citizens than burglars did.

Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2015 8:12 pm
by TPRJones
Bunch of thugs.

Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2015 8:22 pm
by GORDON
I seriously think the US should consider chopping off the hands of thieves, Saudi Arabia style.

Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2015 8:35 pm
by Malcolm
GORDON wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news....st-year
Here's an interesting factoid about contemporary policing: In 2014, for the first time ever, law enforcement officers took more property from American citizens than burglars did.

They count those two jobs as different? Hmm, well after some thought, the illegal type of thief generally doesn't have fellow thieves to lie for him, provide an alibi, plant evidence, rough up a suspect, lose paperwork, and in general facilitate his thievery. I guess they should be different after all.




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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2015 3:31 am
by Alhazad
Burglars specifically enter your home. Police take your stuff anywhere. Police are the umbrella category.

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2015 7:52 am
by GORDON
Malcolm wrote:
GORDON wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news....st-year
Here's an interesting factoid about contemporary policing: In 2014, for the first time ever, law enforcement officers took more property from American citizens than burglars did.
They count those two jobs as different? Hmm, well after some thought, the illegal type of thief generally doesn't have fellow thieves to lie for him, provide an alibi, plant evidence, rough up a suspect, lose paperwork, and in general facilitate his thievery. I guess they should be different after all.
Even if there is no outright malfeasance, one still has to deal with their bureaucracy to get ones stuff back, too, and then by law they don't need to give it all back, iirc. Isn't there some rule about cash that says they only need to ballpark it?