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Originally Posted by casper
Here is BC there is a massive list of police organisations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agencies_in_British_Columbia
Many of them are fairly specialized. CP Rail has its police force. WorkSafe BC has its police etc. The problem tends to be the general do everything police. Perhaps we are asking them to do to many different things and they are not well equipped.
I would not expect the police officer that investigates counterfeit money to be the same person that is called for a family violence case or the same one called for a burglary or someone running a red light.
Maybe the police that respond to family violence calls should have training in physiology and be integrated into the family services organisations. While the police that respond to a counterfeit $20 bill should know about commercial law and business. |
The cops would not be arresting anybody for a fake $20 bill anywhere else. That's the difference. Get details. Write a report. Lay charges later if necessary. But in the US, this is the kind of overpolicing that leads to confrontation, violence and eventually deaths of African-Americans at the hands of police.
Think of Eric Garner who died in a similar fashion. Choked to death. For selling cigarettes.
Or the fact that
35 of 40 people arrested for violating Social distancing rules in New York City are black. What's the statistical likelihood that blacks broke social distancing rules to such an extent, more than any other racial group?
This is the result of overpolicing black communities. Not so much the lack of specialized police units or training.
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