Louisiana GOP Gov. Jeff Landry has declared a state of emergency due to a police officer shortage.
Landry’s executive order issued Thursday lifts limits on how many new employees Louisiana sheriffs can hire and on payroll increases for their departments.
Landry, who previously had a career in law enforcement, said that police departments in the state are experiencing record-low employments “resulting in increased crime and less public safety.” As of July, sheriff’s offices statewide were down 1,800 deputies, Landry said.
Well, crime statistics are gonna be low if there’s no one to report crimes to
Edit: y’all are insane, I’m not taking any sides around here, it’s just straight up a fact lol
It would be great if police held themselves to a standard that helped the public, then we could have someone trustworthy to report to. As it is, they have destroyed the trust they had with me by failing to do even the most minor things to address problematic cops. It is clear the “problematic” cops for me are the kind of cops they actually want.
No thank you.
It’s on the police to rebuild trust with us now, they’ve shown repeatedly they deserve none.
Edit: in Louisiana I would not be surprised that having fewer cops would reduce crime. This is a state that has repeatedly fought to keep racism alive and well. I bet there are huge issues there with the police terrorizing vs. serving many communities. So … less cops on the ground sounds like more peace for a lot of people who’ve been suppressed way too much, seems like a win.
Don’t like my opinion? Wake me up when the cops say “yeah, we fucked up and lost your trust for being gun happy cowards, we have changed the rules and we must protect and serve and any killing on our part is reviewed independently every time.”
Edit 2:
And within 30 minutes I run across a news story about how a major police department lies about shootings to try to further their political views: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/19/blm-march-portland-shooting
It’s on the police. They are the problem. Not us.
Failing the police holding themselves to account, it would be great if someone in power did it for them.
Right now it’s systemic failure all the way down.
Have you read my comment? Have you thought about what I said? Have you considered the fact that the absolute majority of crime is reported by police departments?
Going off on a completely out of context rant that took you 5 minutes to write doesn’t do you any favors, only shows that you want to be mad, regardless of the reason.
Go be mad where it matters.
I vote every time, friend.
How did you manage to go even further out of context?
It’s already well-known that data collected and reported by police departments is pretty horrid. Tons of data that SHOULD be kept and reported isn’t, and tons of policing agencies don’t want real stats getting out. Justice-related data has always been iffy.
So what I’m saying is we shouldn’t even trust too much what we do currently know. They’re not that solid of data for most justice related datasets.
I think where you miss stepped was when you said “no one to report crimes to” but people will still report the same number of crimes voluntarily to a fewer number of police. Instead it would be accurate to say fewer crimes are reported by police.
If there isn’t anyone to write them down, they’re not getting included with the stats either.
That isn’t how crime reports work. Your comment got downvoted because it’s stupid.
Enlighten me, then.
A quick google search shows, that crime stats are reported by law enforcement agencies. How do these agencies know about crimes? For most crimes, it’s gonna be because someone wrote a police report. Who writes police reports? The police.
Makes perfect sense to me
That’s not really accurate. They still have log of calls/reports. Just not someone to deal with the problem. Dispatch just gives up if there aren’t enough officers?
Dispatch can’t really the crimes down, they won’t even know what exactly is going on (just rougly).
It’s gonna officer who writes the report.
You can’t just come onto Lemmy and state the objective truth, it’s against social policy.
Have an upvote.
The echo chamber of blind rage will one day be the end of lemmy
That’s an internet thing, not a Lemmy thing.
I spoke against Nazis, and was downvoted to oblivion.
It’s just the way things go.
I was banned from lemmy.world completely for asking about taking action against a fellow mod posting and Advocating for literal nazi policies.
So that’s cool.