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by snogaraleal 2169 days ago
What's funny is that it doesn't matter whether it was improving or not. Law is law. You don't stop chasing criminals just because criminality is down.
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> You don't stop chasing criminals just because criminality is down.

The process of arresting and charging those who have broken the law should not change either.

Yet it seems to have changed nation-wide in order to accommodate those who are "protesting". You can't get it both ways.
Why let innocence get in the way of chasing people down? That's the argument police unions have been making for years. Whenever society wants to improve and decriminalize something, it can't because the fucking cops want to have easy arrest targets. Fuck them. At least now we can stop pretending we don't live in a police state.