So we pay cops to kills us, if they’re found guilty, we also pay but if someone murders you then you’re SOL? USA baby
I get we love this narrative on reddit/lemmy that cops are just out killing everyone. But that’s simply not true, being hyperbolic about it doesn’t help us address the actual issue - insane violent crime rates in this country. If we had a ‘normal’ amount of violent crimes, how much less police interactions would people have?
We need to clean up the PD’s, but lets not act like our country makes it easy to be a police officer.
If someone isn’t standing there with a literal smoking gun over the body they probably have no clue.
So if you want a better than a coin flip chance at getting away with murder, apparently you should look into St Louis.
How many of those homicides were commited by police officers?
Well theoretically 100% of the unsolved could be, they haven’t solved them after all.
Super shocked. Cops are so good at their jobs how could this happen? /s
How does this compare!?
For major cities in the Midwest?
Pretty middle of the road.
The reason people say “most murders are by a spouse/partner” is because those are the easiest to solve, and cops are pretty shit at solving crimes.
It’s waaaaay more accurate to say “most murders who are caught killed a spouse/partner”
Hard to say since news organizations had to sue this department to get these numbers and pretty much every department is always trying to sweep dirt under the rug like that