Recently, a California website ran an e-mail forum (a question
and answer exchange) where the topic was "Policing the Community.
"One of the civilian email participants posed the following question:
*"I would like to know how it is possible for police officers
to continually harass people and get away with it?"*
It is not easy. In California we average one cop for every
2,000 people.
About 60% of those cops are on patrol, where we do most of the
harassing.
One-fifth of that 60% are on duty at any given moment and are
available for harassing people. So, one cop is responsible for harassing
about 10,000 residents. When you toss in the commercial, business and
tourist locations that attract people from other areas, sometimes you have a
situation where a single cop is responsible for harassing 20,000 or more
people each day.
2007-08-18
06:18:09
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Serpico7
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