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Guess the percentage of crimes police actually solve? Here's a hint - cut your first guess by about 90%.
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Guess the percentage of crimes police actually solve? Here's a hint - cut your first guess by about 90%.

American police spend trillions of dollars, but are, without a doubt, the single least effective agents of public safety in the nation.

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NYPD Police Union President, and lifelong bigot, Pat Lynch

I don’t think a single government agency in the United States is worse at their job than American police. I can take it a step further - I don’t think our entire country has a single profession that is as consistently ineffective, while simultaneously outrageously expensive, as law enforcement. W…

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