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Re:Who makes the most reliable new cars? by nicbou on Thursday November 30, 2023 @04:33AM (#38471512)
I am not American but I read this again and again. The most correlated reason, I have read, is that the police explicitly stopped enforcing laws in many places, in reaction to some larger political event. I forgot which.
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Re:Who makes the most reliable new cars? by WarOnPrivacy on Thursday November 30, 2023 @11:07AM (#38475190)
Oh yes. I live in one of those places. It was when a new sheriff was elected who wasn't driven by ever-fattening budgets. The first thing he did - stop allowing fine revenue to influence enforcement.

Ticketing dropped. Also the quality of policing in general (and officers specifically) improved dramatically. We had way better cops than under the previous sheriff.

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