Re:WTF Nextdoor? Over 130 clicks to disable email and push n...
by pyuser583 on Sunday July 03, 2022 @11:48PM
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The phrase “overpolicing” used to refer to wealthy, low crime suburbs that spent insane amounts of money on police.
There was a study on this, and California is one of the worst offenders. There a rich hamlets with not crimes to speak of that hire retired FBI agents and Navy Seals to issue parking tickets.
This is a great example: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-framed/#chapter1
For context we live in a somewhat isolated, well off suburb, that according to police data has had a grant total of 63 crimes committed in it during the last 12 months, 41 of which were just people vandalising the same abandoned building.