PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
I watch a lot of true crime. Over the years I’ve come to the conclusion that the cops are just really shitty at anything that isn’t just violence, so they rarely do good detective work even when someone gets hurt or killed either. So many cases are ruined by sloppy or negligent detective work that we know about. Since we know that the cops are systematic not doing the detective work for most other crimes, imagine how bad it is for violent crimes and they just don’t keep track…
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Most cops don’t do detective work because that isn’t their job. Most cops do grunt work like tickets, traffic, taking down statements and reports, etc. Detectives do the detective work.
Even if they did do good work, the prosecutor has to follow through with filing charges. The cop can get all the details but if the prosecutor doesn’t think they can win or get a plea then it doesn’t even matter what the cop does.
Which then circles back to why there are so many lazy and corrupt cops. They are only incentivized to do either the easy stuff like writing tickets or the high profile (rich people as victims) stuff because that is what the prosecutor follows up on. The prosecutor doesn’t want to hold cops responsible, because that is where the stuff they need for prosecuting people comes from.
Which is why we have lazy and corrupt cops. The system incentivizes both.