Why don't the cops take care of real crime?

Question

Insted of worrying about all the small c**p?

Answer 1

Cause the small c**p puts money in the city coffers.

Answer 2

Policy level decisions include the allocation of police resources.  None of those decisions are based on your notion of what constitutes a "real crime."

Answer 3

Define real crime.

Answer 4

All illegal things are crimes.

Speeding, littering, loitering, murder its all illegal.

If they didnt do that than everyone would do what they wanted. And its not everyday a police officer has a murder case in his hands

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Answer 5

Pay your ticket and move on.

Answer 6

In my experience, most cops nowadays are cowardly bullies.  They will actually use a backup car just to make a routine stop for speeding.

Recently, we saw the obscenely fat cop who terrorized a nice little, soft-spoken 14-year old boy whose only offense was skateboarding.  (Just open up www.youtube.com and enter:  Baltimore Cop vs. Skateboarder).  Is this the (bloated) face of modern "law enforcement"?

Police nowadays don't want to take on real criminals.  They prefer the safety of bullying those who can't possibly pose any danger to them.

Answer 7

I try to take care of all the crime I can, big and small, that I encounter.

The big stuff is more complicated and takes more time, so it's a bit slower going than the small stuff.

Answer 8

Police do take care of real crime that's why things like bank robberies have very high conviction rates. The system falls down when the public doesn't cooperate as witnesses, even if one of their friends or family gets shot. In the long run crime doesn't hurt the police, they get paid anyway, but crime hurts the citizens, and they don't care enough to get involved.

Answer 9

Serious crime is hard to solve, and most cops are not capable of much brainwork. Their work has to be extremely simple. Otherwise the vast majority of them would never get it done.

Answer 10

Ooops!  You must have been caught speeding!

Answer 11

the state makes millions of dollars veery year on the so callled "small stuff" your basic traffic violtions registrations renewalls.. etc.. its a buisness for them just like anything else..