re: Murderers in the US now stand a 50% chance of getting away with it

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I mean, I can't tell you my method but I could totally get away with it. The ones that get caught are just idiots.

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Bookmarked for potential future trial…

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Bookmarked for potential future trial…

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Unprecedented increases in US homicides are being met with the lowest-ever clearance rate — leaving at least half of the KNOWN killings unsolved, according to alarming data and experts.

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That 50% is just of things classified as homicide.

I imagine that police classify things as homicide as rarely as possible, unless it’s undeniable or someone is pressing the case.
So I’d guess the real number is much lower.

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There isn’t a lot of opportunity for the methods required to make this happen in a free and democratic society.

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There is, most of us don't have the stomach for it.

Mass incarceration and lifetime in prison for repeat violent offenders and all murderers.

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Murderers in the US now stand a 50% chance of getting away with it

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you miss typed. 90%

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Next time a liberal tells you that the crime stats are bogus because blacks get falsely arrested.

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Imagine blaming white people for black violence that's far higher than any other race.

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There is, most of us don't have the stomach for it.

Mass incarceration and lifetime in prison for repeat violent offenders and all murderers.

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This doesn't do shite to a culture that thinks life in prison is worth it to kill someone in the name of disrespect.

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“My perception is that police are failing to do their job.”

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My perception is that it has more to do with the unwillingness of black people to "snitch". It's hard to conduct an investigation when no one will say what they know or saw.

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I’m going to fundamentally disagree with this. There isn’t a lot of opportunity for the methods required to make this happen in a free and democratic society. I’m sure there are ways for the police to proactively reduce a lot of the criminal activities, but at what constitutional cost? The police are there to investigate, take reports, ask the questions, but after the fact. The community, the educational systems, the justice system can do a lot more in preventing crime than the police. It’s a fundamental misconception about what the role of the police should be in our society.

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There would be little constitutional impact for police to simply be present as they once were when they walked a beat and knew everyone in the neighborhood. There is also very little constitutional impact with technology and cameras...they are already every where and we never had the expectation of privacy in public places. The police could continue to do the things you suggest but on a far smaller scale which would require fewer people and would allow cities, counties and states to hire more qualified individuals. Simply having citizens on the pay roll to act as mall cops, without arrest powers and certainly not armed, would prevent a heap of crime. Just the knowledge that someone may be watching is how crime is committed, it ain't threatening arrests and screaming and hollering and wrestling in the streets.

The constitutional costs associated with current policing in the United States is staggering. There are hundreds of videos a day posted to youtube of police interactions where the police violate people's rights across the country. The police do not care about anyone's rights all they are concerned with is your following their orders, legal or otherwise, and if you do not they will immediately escalate the encounter and violate your rights. The tax payers pay numerous small amounts of money to people annually and regularly for their having done so.

The role of the police should be to prevent crime first and foremost. They do that by being present and using technology that is in place and being used anyway. Their performance should be based on the reduction in crime and not on arrests and certainly not on arrests where a conviction is not possible because of their incompetence or, even worse, when no crime was committed to begin with. Police who do actual police work should be trained properly, they should pass numerous background investigations as well as ongoing investigations and there actions should be subject to a robust random audit system conducted by professionals and citizens alike and when they are found wanting that should be corrected immediately. The power of the state being abused so folks can enjoy a sense of retribution yet be so scared they feel compelled to carry a firearm to Dairy Queen is as close to an adhesion to common practices from the dark ages as we get in modern society. And it ain't working....some folks literally HATE the police, the police get no cooperation from concerned citizens in some areas and the number of people in jail, who supposedly committed a crime, is higher in the US than in any nation on the planet. It simply is not working and is only going to get worse.

Taint seent shite