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My son and I have started a project. Perhaps you could start your own. In your own county, city, state or province.
Somewhere, these statistics are supposed to be a matter of public record:
The number of traffic citations issued.
The number of felony crime arrests made.
The number of drug related arrests made.
The number of officers working for a government agency in any given year.
The number of officers assigned to different divisions in any given year.
Finally, any increases in spending on law enforcement.
With this information, we hope to prove, beyond reasonable doubt, the following:
That the government routinely hires more law enforcement officers, not to increase meaningful crime prevention, but to increase government revenues.
We further propose that there are a certain number of people at any given time committing minor traffic violations, and that the purpose of hiring more officers is simply to collect fines from a larger percentage of them.
Furthermore, on pure principle, we will state that if an activity (such as moderate speeding, or making simple driving mistakes) is so acceptable in our society that it can provide a constantly increasing stream of revenue to the state, that it shouldn't be illegal. At the very least, penalties should be minor for such offenses.
By analyzing the above information, we believe a repeated pattern will emerge, in which traffic revenues increase as new law enforcement officers are hired..in most cases, without significant increases in population.
Meanwhile, I believe that felony crime rates will be shown to respond primarily to changes in population, unemployment rates and per capita income levels..not newly hired officers.
We believe this is because the vast majority of new officers will be deployed on the streets to catch normal, mainly law-abiding citizens..in the act of being human.
More to come
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