According to compiled police data, only 2% of arrests result in convictions. If 2% of the burgers a cook made were edible, he'd have a very big problem on his hands.
Less actually. Engels described this in the "Conditions...", even in the conditions of purposeful and pretty obvious starvation only a minority of victims turned to crime. Especially that back then, even being unemployed or homeless or too poor to live was literally a crime, as the poor law stipulated, punished by the forced labour camp.
So really, this is the point of this survelliance system - not to prevent crime but to criminalise everyone. As old saying goes "there are no innocents, only people insufficiently interrogated".
EDIT: wrong person, i wanted to write this to @plinky
But arresting people as a form of harassment is the burger. Having a cop roll up on a guy sitting on the curb and throwing him in the back of a squad car is the service Americans want.
If anything, the low conviction rate is a problem only in so far as a court proceeding exists at all. Leave them all in jail forever, Gitmo style, and Burger Folk won't complain.
Because cops are there to provide an armed bulwark against strikes and protect commercial property and its owners, and provide the state with a supply of cheap labour (state depending). Other things they do are ancillary justifications for their existence.
That kids is why the strongman stance on crime never works. You spend far more money enforcing draconian gun control and still won't end up solving crime/
something that drives me crazy is how people believe that cops have much of anything to do with "cutting crime". they don't. they react to crime that has already occurred by investigating/pursuing/arresting criminals.
crime prevention comes down to preventing the circumstances which lead people to commit crimes in the first place, and 9 times out of 10, that's poverty. of course, nobody wants to deal with that...
what i meant, other than lamenting the failed promises of the Soviet State, is, like you, we've known this shit for a long time but have yet to apply it in any meaningful way to our societies.
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