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Monopoly money found in backpack recovered in central park (www.msnbc.com)
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[–] 32 points 2 years ago (5 children)

They’re competent at one thing, and it isn’t “finding criminals”.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Yeah. I remember reading the statistics for cases "solved", and there is a huge gap between crimes against "property", and crimes against "people". The police force has much more know-how dealing with theft and other kinds of similar crimes than they do with murder, assault, SA, and so on.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I found it really surprising when i heard how low the number of solved murder cases in the US is. Apparently it's something around 20%. Over here, it's in the 70-80% ballpark.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    And even then, the % is not such a good metric to look at. Japan has a nearly 100% conviction rate for murder , but it's because they'll just accuse whoever and once you've been charged you're as good as convicted.

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