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Re:NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break fr... by treeman79 on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:47PM (#28361273)
Ages ago when I was a kid, our house was constantly being robbed. No city police in a town of 50,000

County police who took an hour or more to show up finally told my dad to get a gun and explained how we should move the body to make it look like we were being attacked. So that we didn’t get arrested.

So yea we moved promptly.

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Re:NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break fr... by WesolyKubeczek on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:52PM (#28361321)
And now I want a Youtube tutorial...
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Re:NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break fr... by vimy on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:55PM (#28361357)
Why was there no police?
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Re:NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break fr... by actually_a_dog on Monday August 30, 2021 @07:04PM (#28361979)
Plenty of rural areas will only be serviced by a county sheriff, and there may not be that many officers. I grew up in a place like that. You could drive around forever where I grew up and never see a cop.
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Re:NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break fr... by treeman79 on Monday August 30, 2021 @06:57PM (#28361933)
A few years some parents left their kid home alone while on vacation.

Neighbors knew family had gone vacation and saw movement at night. Jumpy cop, dark house, sudden movement, dead kid...

Family got big payout, City dismantled the police department.

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