Re:The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a ...
by Dig1t on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:05AM
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I don't really know the reason for it, but it's an actual policy that cities have:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/san-francisco-shoplifters-theft...
Just walk the street on any given day in SF, you are guaranteed to see at least one broken car window. Smash and grabs are rampant.
Re:The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a ...
by snozolli on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:38PM
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I don't know if the rest of the article is behind a paywall, but I don't see anything about a policy.
The only policies I've heard of are either police department policies -- which is just codified laziness and refusal to do their job -- or district attorney policy which, as I said, shouldn't be relevant to whether or not police make arrests. It's their job to arrest people for crimes, not to solely arrest people for crimes for which they think they can get a conviction.
That's just cops being lazy and not doing their job. They like to say "the D.A. will just throw it out!" or "they'll just be back on the street due to overcrowding!" as if either of those has anything to do with the cops' job of enforcing laws and arresting perpetrators.