2014 Police Fatalities Rise In the US

[Boreas]

There's this thing - and we hear Zeke talking around it here all the fucking time - that the majority of crimes are committed by a relatively small number of "career criminals". This high recidivism rate among these "sub-humans" breeds in cops a sense of futility.

The frustration this produces in them leads to a belief that mere apprehension of offenders is, to a large extent, pointless. After all, the theory goes, they'll just get out again, maybe never serve a day since the courts are so screwed up. Once they're on the streets again, they'll go back to their old ways. The only certain way to "rid the streets" of these people is to "rid society" of them.

Just like they did to Eric Garner.

John