Comment by vkou

'Rampant crime' doesn't mean that cops are doing something about it.

Solving crime is hard work, and dealing with criminals is dangerous work[1], and why would you work hard or risk your life[1] when you can do neither (and can instead brutalize or harass law-abiding people who won't fight back)?

In Seattle[2], emergency police response times are, on average, 70 minutes. Non-emergency response times are 3 hours.

(Meanwhile, the city's third-highest-earning cop was cited for falling asleep in their patrol car in a bus lane, while clocking in overtime. She should be breaking rocks with her teeth in state prison for overtime fraud, not given a badge and a gun... But the whole department is rotten to the core.)

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[1] Of course, America's cultural obsession with guns and violence means that cops often assume that anyone they are dealing with is actively planning to murder them... And are quick to pre-emptively use (in)appropriate levels of force.

[2] Which is not overrun by 'Rampant Crime' despite what professional liars on television zooming in on a single burning trash can might say.