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Re:The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a ... by Dig1t on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:05AM (#35373767)
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.

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Re:The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a ... by snozolli on Thursday March 30, 2023 @11:38PM (#35382221)
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.

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