Re:Google Engineer bails out student in jail
by troels on Friday December 24, 2010 @09:21AM
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That sounds like the difference between inefficient and an efficient police work - not something that is due to a greater incarceration rate. If that was the cause, there would be fewer crimes, but the resolution of them should be about the same. Of course, that evades the question of whether incarceration has any kind of positive effect on crime rates - Popular wisdom assumes that, but scientific evidence is lacking.
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Re:Google Engineer bails out student in jail
by kawera on Friday December 24, 2010 @12:45PM
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And the efficiency of police work doesn't always depend on location. I also live in Brazil (São Paulo) and had my car stolen last year; they found it the next morning. While living in Paris years ago, I had my car stolen and it was never found.
Re:Google Engineer bails out student in jail
by rbanffy on Friday December 24, 2010 @04:54PM
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I was told it was safe to assume, considering model/year of my stolen cars, that they were dismantled the very same day. It's possible your recovered car had a lower demand for aftermarket parts.
As for your car in Paris, the obvious conclusion is that the total prison population in France is a bit lower than it should be. ;-)
Re:Google Engineer bails out student in jail
by rhizome on Saturday December 25, 2010 @01:24AM
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If the people who told you that were the police, they have a conflict of interest if they don't feel like hunting down stolen cars, which I imagine is policework equivalent of being the guy who gets to tell people to reboot in the IT world. Yeah, it fixed the problem, but it's just going to happen again, in the exact same way, possibly to the same people.
However, and given the more-or-less subject of this thread, it might be a good punishment for bad cops to have to work these cases (no gun or handcuffs) for $2/day.