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Re:SF’s Black Market Thrives Off Retail Theft by bagels on Saturday July 30, 2022 @12:56PM (#32288284)
The point is that the police departments face constraints (budgetary, management, laziness, etc.) such that many crimes and police reports simply are not investigated at all.

Some first hand examples: The four times my car was stolen, no investigation or arrest, including the one time I even was able to give them the name of one of the people who did it.

Usually they don't explicitly announce these policies because they are unpopular, but every police department has some threshold beyond which they do nothing.

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Re:SF’s Black Market Thrives Off Retail Theft by jakelazaroff on Saturday July 30, 2022 @03:44PM (#32289667)
Management and laziness aren’t really “constraints”. Police know they can simply refuse to perform the job they’re ostensibly paid to do — and not only will there be no consequences, but people will even demand they get more money.
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