why don't the police spend more time trying to solve serious crimes?

Question

I see a lot of unsolved murder cases on cold case files that have never been solved.But if the victim was a cop or a cops family member the case would never be put in the cold case files and every cop would try thier best to solve it.but since thier not they spend all thier time picking on the poor man trying to make a living.Why?

A real crime is drug dealers,murders,rapist,etc...
Not a man walking his dog with a beer in his hand.

People ask who do you call when in trouble. Well I dam sure ain't calling no pig I might get arrested for disturbing them.If thier is an intruder in my house I got a shotgun and a rifle I will take care of the problem.Last time I called the police I was arrested because someone wrecked a truck across the streat from my house.I was drunk and crossed the street to help.Public intoxication,another way to get money from the poor man.Driving while drunk is wrong and you should go to jail for it they tell you to walk but when you do beware,They will arrest you for not drinking and driving its actually drinking and walking but the pigs call it PUBLIC INTOXICATION!!Another way to get money from the poor man just trying to make a living.

hey frchuck I have been fired because my best was not good enough why ain't it the same for pigs?

Answer 1

Its all about money.There is a lot more money in speeding tickets than murder.They are just after the working man trying to get that money.They could ride around in the projects and find all the crime they want.Aint no money in there plus they scared to go in the projects where the crime is.

Answer 2

This is a perception vs. reality thing.

Perception: all cases that are unsolved are unsolved because the police don't care enough, or the case is not important enough

Reality: while there are some cases where I'm sure the details have been glossed over and things have been ignored, the investigators follow incredibly strict guidelines as to the cataloging and even photography of crime scenes, as to best facilitate a speedy conclusion. There are hundreds of thousands of cases that come across the desks of police every year, and they wouldn't very well be able to do their jobs of protecting people and enforcing the law if every single cop (which is what it would take, every single cop) was assigned a case and couldn't do anything else until it was solved. Regular cops do not investigate murders, for instance. Highly trained detectives do. Lots of people die because a surgery wasn't performed in time. Do you think that a nurse should have to perform the surgery when there isn't a surgeon available? Of course not, but there are far fewer surgeons than nurses, so why aren't they taking care of these "serious problems" rather than changing bedpans? Doesn't make too much sense that way, does it?\

I find it humorous how many people that have answered this question (and the person asking it) seem to detest cops. They are just doing their job, just like everyone else, and if you got robbed you'd certainly want their help... wouldn't hate them so much then, would you? I've been stopped and detained for a day because of the neighborhood was in (they assumed I was there to buy drugs because I was white and what time of night it was... ah, the city where I grew up), but am I bitter about it? No. I fit a profile, so they used their judgement. Was their judgement wrong? Yea, but I'm certainly not perfect, and I doubt anyone else here is.

Answer 3

Well for one sometimes there is not enough evidence to solve a crime that's why there is so many unsolved ones it sounds like u had a run in with a police officer or someone u know has well if people were not so stupid and follow the fricken law then there would not be so many people and family members crying cause a loved one is in jail come on now there is no such thing as picking on a poor man while he is trying to earn a liven yes sometimes there r mistakes and sometimes there r a few police officers that went bad but in most cases that "poor man" was probably breaking the law in which he should not have been doing if Ur going to break the law no matter how little it is or how stupid i think it is then u should pay for it........if ur going to smoke pot then u should go to jail why do u think there is so many kids on drugs now because they see there family members doing it or a friends family member in most cases not all police offers r bad and yes when a crime happens to a police offers family we feel more drawn to it only cause ITS FAMILY think of it this way if u were a Police officer and ur wife or ur child was killed or something like that u would do everything in Ur fricken power to solve it...............stop bitching and follow the law


i had to edit cause of what someone had said u know i really ticks me off that some people can think bad towards police officers when they put the lives on the line every single day for you people my uncle was a police officer for like 10 years and one day he went to a house where the guy was beating his wife and the guy took a gun and put it on my uncles forhead and pulled the triger and he died right then and there left a wife and two small kids and he died from doing his job getting scum bags off the streets

Answer 4

Its because the petty crimes are much more numerous and the perpetrator much easier to locate and arrest.Petty crimes and offenses take up almost 99% of an officers time while on duty,and the detectives that are assigned the murder cases are in far less number than the patrolmen. I don't feel that "picking on the poor man " is a valid argument for lack of solved murders.People rich and poor commit crime,and that is the problem.
I see nothing wrong with putting extra detectives on the murder of a police officer killed in the line of duty.Of course you need to protect those that protect us . They are like a family and if one of my family members were killed I too would want extra attention given to finding the killer . If we paid our cops better and the field attracted more people that actually give a damn about what they are doing then we would all be much better protected.I'm sorry they are the first person Id call if I was in trouble and needed help in a crime situation. Who do you call?

Answer 5

You're right, it's all about money for starters. The small time crime brings mega bucks to the penal system. It takes a lot of brains and serious work to crack a real crime. Why solve one when you can solve 500? Unless of course that ONE case involves notoriety.
I live in a bad area and there are soooooooo many murders, and sooooooooo many of them are unsolved, nobody cares unless it's been in the media. I think the cops enjoy harrassing the people who commit petty crimes, gives them a big woody to humiliate a nice old lady shoplifting a bottle of Excedrin.
This is not going to change. After all, 'we the people' are NEVER heard.

It's a nice thought to think that neighborhood involvement will make a difference. We might get thrown a crumb and when it's forgotten in a few weeks, even the crumbs are gone.

And detectives ARE on the street as well as uniformed pigs. They all have to work together. When there's a drug bust there are always detectives involved in the arresting procedure. Then they get their picture in the paper and get an award... Makes ya wanna puke chunks!

Answer 6

separate people to do separate jobs. traffic cops and beat cops don't do detective work. and there is a budget. and honest- high profile cases get high profile attention first. that's an unfortunate fact. if the Governor gave you a call -you too would drop everything and attend to that. especially IF YOUR FUNDING came from there. so reality is a part. don't forget no one wants to pay the taxes to get the work funded.
and there are many cases just not enough clues and the budget is never big enough. and sometimes it takes the public's input to solve. if you notice many witnesses refuse to come forward makes it a little hard. and yes when its a cop killing it is priority its a scarier more dangerous person who'll kill a cop.. and just like if something happened to your family vs a stranger. cops are their own family. they risk their lives daily. and lots of times their lives depend on their partner or backup. and they become best of friends . there are some cops who are not good at what they do like every job but most are dedicated. now that there are psyche tests required for entry rare true wackos get in. if you have wild looking car or something that alerts them.. there is a study about colors of cars etc. so what car you drive affects how much you get hassled..if are new in a small town or in a high crime area do expect more surveillance that's how they prevent/stop the crime. also cruising or other suspicious behavior can get you hassled. so what you look like and what your car looks like and you do has a big impact on how you are perceived and treated. nuns rarely get hassled someone hanging out and covered in jail tattoos does.

Answer 7

You have to learn more about how your police departments are staffed, funded, and operated. Take some criminology courses. If there's a case that is of particular importance to you, write to the Mayor, visit the Police Chief or head of the department working on the case. Politics influences which cases will get the most attention. So does the difficulty of the case. Join your Neighbourhood Watch. Unless you get involved in some appropriate way, you're part of the problem, not the solution.

Answer 8

It's all about revenue. Murderers and rapists don't pay parking/speeding tickets.. and those fines paythe bills around our police department.. As with most things its all about the money. Don't be fooled Most Cops have a quota system even if they deny it . Why do you think there is always 2 cops parked at almose every school zone on the last 3 days of the month? Filling thier quota. Like shooting fish in a barrel.

Answer 9

This is a question is a special case of a larger question: "Why is government policy often designed to fail?" The answer is: the government requires that a false idea be regarded as a true idea, namely, it requires that the races be regarded as equals. Thus, when policy or law is made, the political imperative for racial equality comes into conflict with the real world, in which the races aren't equals.

If you study crime statistics, as I've been doing since 1996, it's easy to see racial differences in the per capita rates of perpetration for every sort of violent crime. Without exception, Blacks are more likely to commit them than Whites are; and it's not a small disparity of a few percent; rather, it's a huge disparity of a factor of five or ten or twenty or fifty, depending on which crime you consider.

As things are, the police are already frequently criticized for being racist toward Blacks because Blacks are arrested and sent to prison in overproportionate numbers, relative to their proportion of the general public. The theory of racial equality calls for 1 percent of the White population to be in prison for each 1 percent of the Black population in prison. But doing that would require enforcing the law far more strictly on Whites than on Blacks.

If the police actually arrested Blacks and Whites in the same proportion as they commit crimes, the arrest and incarceration ratios would be even more lopsided than they are now, with a higher ratio of Blacks to Whites than is the situation now. The police have been pressured into compromising their duty to arrest the criminal without fear or favor, basically splitting the difference between doing their job properly and doing their job as the racial egalitarians demand.

The same deleterious influence of the government "racial equality" presumption can be found in education, most recently with the "No Child Left Behind" act. One of its major goals was to reduce the persistent White-Black gap in school grades and test scores that has existed ever since the public school were integrated in the late 1950s. (In some cases, as in Little Rock, Arkansas, racial integration was forcibly carried out by federal soldiers with their guns leveled at White school children.)

The "No Child Left Behind" Act requires the schools to cheat in how they gather, or in how they report, their data, since they cannot change the fact that Blacks, on the average, have 10% smaller brains than Whites do (a once well-known anthropological fact that is no longer discussed in anthropology classes) and have an IQ that is 15 points below the average for Whites.

If the schools don't cheat, they will fail to meet federal NCLB requirements, and then the government will take away "Title One" funding and require the schools to start replacing teachers. That is, if this group of teachers is too honorable to cheat so that the Black students seem to be catching up with the White ones, then they'll be fired and replaced with teachers who will so cheat.

How do they cheat? For one thing, they no longer push their brightest kids to work as hard as they once did. If the brightest kids, who are usually also the Whitest kids, "blow away the curve" then the teachers could end up being punished. The teachers don't want to be punished, so the schoolwork has become pathetically easy, without real challenges to most students' abilities, and there are no more of those hard extra credit questions on tests that a student can optionally answer for bonus points. (Extra credit questions are questions that can only be answered by students who went beyond the assigned reading and studied more than what was required.)

But when you come right down to it, both the problem with the police and the problem with the school teachers is the same problem. The government believes a lie. The government insists that all public institutions behave as if the lie were the truth. As long as the "racial equality" doctrine rules us, there will be no end to problems.

Answer 10

I am glad to see you will lobby for and vote for a large tax increase or sales tax increase so the police can hire alot more officers, and get needed investigation equipment for thier departments.

First patrol is not investigation, thier department does patrol and sometimes also traffic, they are the visable police who we see in marked cars. They do the first line of police work and are involved in trying to prevent crime or some merley work traffic.

Detectives do the investigation work, and a department of 20 detectives for example my have 3 new cases every day. So they work on what they can as good as they can.

Answer 11

More work for them I guess...Why Should they think and make the world a better place when they can just bust the first guy they see, pat themselves on the back and bring home the bacon...I agree, even the the job description of a cop is to be fair, uphold the law and protect the innocent, in the end, everyone looks after their own interest, they're just trying to make a living too.