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[–] 67 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Where I live it's strictly one cop per car unless they're training. That's why they pull people over in packs.

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

    That's something I never got about cops in the US. Everywhere in Europe, there are always two cops per car, at least in the places I have been.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's to create the illusion that there's more cops than there really are. Same reason behind take home cars.

    My city of about 300k people has about 30 cops patrolling at any given time.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    San Jose, California has some wild numbers perhaps like that.

    Would you take more if you could? Assuming no reform, just more of the same.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I think higher numbers would lead to reform on its own. When you're scraping by at the bare minimum, a lot of stuff gets overlooked just to maintain numbers.

    More cops would make it a lot easier to have better standards, and raise the average competency level.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fewer witnesses.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In Europe, it's exactly because they want witnesses, cops' words don't carry more weight than yours by default, so if they ticket you, they want at least two testimonies on their side.

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