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by nullindividual 866 days ago
People have killed themselves due to cops lying.

There's the harm.
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echelon 866 days ago
Okay, so there's a negative externality to this approach. Is there a measure of this?

If preventing cops from lying results in fewer trials going to court for violent crime, then I'd be curious to compare the two figures.

I'm anxious about having fewer tools to investigate and prosecute. We used to have a 70% homicide clearance rate, but that's dropped to just 50% [1]. This feels like we'd be further trying our hands.

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/3878472-nearly-half-of-us-murde...

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nullindividual 866 days ago
You're using the same argument that death penalty supporters use.

MOST of them are guilty, so killing ALL of them is OK! Wouldn't want to let off the guilty ones.

The smart cops cut out all of this by simply killing the unarmed suspect before pronouncing the 'p' in 'stop'.

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