The police steal more money from us via asset seizure than criminals. We also pay to the LEO and prison industries ~$300 for every $15 worth of property crime a...
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The police steal more money from us via asset seizure than criminals.
We also pay to the LEO and prison industries ~$300 for every $15 worth of property crime annually.
They do not prevent murders or rapes. 40% of murders are solved (!) and just 3% of rapes end in a conviction.
Solid essay from a 10-year veteran cop from California:
https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759
They deprive us of our Bill of Rights, and they cost far more money than they add in value.
Disband all police. Rebuild new infrastructure that actually serves and protects the people.
Originally posted on Facebook on June 09, 2020.
Five years earlier, he ran the same numbers and reached the same conclusion: policing is a profit-extraction racket, not a protection service.
Post from August 11, 2015
Six years earlier, the numbers were even more damning: police kill at 13x the rate of the criminals we're told to fear.
Police in the USA are 13x more likely to commit homicide than male African Am...
This $50k bond for a 43-cent theft is the human face of the fiscal insanity he'd already documented at institutional scale.
We need to end the shadow tax that the Law Enforcement Industry imposes on us all
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Published: June 10, 2020 12:00 AM
Last updated: March 8, 2026 3:07 AM
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