‘Socialist’ Harvard professors: 🥺👉👈 just five hundwed thousand mowe cops pweas
Article criticizing this paper: https://equalityalec.substack.com/p/a-warning-to-journalists-about-elite
biggest issue:
- authors claim US has below average cops per capita using lowball estimate of ~700k (ignoring feds, etc)
- admit in private correspondence that the total number of cops could be 1.2 million (hey look there’s the 500k cops you’re asking for)
- toss in private police and that makes the US have twice the cops as average :porky-happy:
Also the authors have the premise that more police = fewer prisoners since there’s just too few cops so they have to throw you in jail for a decade for possessing weed or else they couldn’t keep up with all the crime
I looked at some data myself: Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate and wait, hold on, THIS CANT BE!!! THE 3RD HIGHEST NUMBER OF COPS PER CAPITA!!! this is simply impossible to predict
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