It's hard to paint with a broad brush bc police departments are so heterogenous, but hard or soft quotas & fines/confiscations that can fund the depts seem like corrupting factors. LEO shouldn't be funding themselves with police activity, but nobody else wants to fund them
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I would prefer to see more beat cops than traffic cops, but again, it's more complicated than that. I tend to agree with community advocates who think beats are essential; cops out on the streets and sidewalks can intervene in crime rather than just respond to it.
There are cops who occasionally roll through my neighborhood, which isn't the worst of East Oakland but is definitely high crime. No idea whether they're classified as traffic cops or something else, but I'm glad they're there.
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Fair points. It just feels like the divisions that solve violent crimes are massively understaffed, and they have the success rate to prove it (i.e., close to zero).
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Violent crime mostly goes unsolved everywhere in the United States and, indeed, the world. It's very hard to solve these crimes. Community advocates are right that prevention/intervention need to be prioritized, but that means cops *on the streets.*
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