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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
Regular cops when on duty can either be sat around doing fuck all, or patrolling the city. The latter seems better to me.
Either way they're doing fuck all until someone calls them, or they happen ass-backwards onto a crime taking place (which practically never happens).
Why pay someone to walk or drive around aimlessly? I'm sure you would need a lot fewer police if none of them were busy patrolling.
Originally Posted by OngBonga
They're primed for response
What do you mean "primed?" Are cops only ready to act if they're out in a patrol car or wandering around the streets? When a cop shows up at the station in the morning is he/she not primed yet? That only happens when they start their patrol?
Originally Posted by OngBonga
and act as a visual reminder to people that the police exist.
Everyone knows the police exist. I don't go a few days without seeing a cop and think "oh gee I wonder if they dissolved the police and didn't tell anyone?" And, if I only ever saw a cop car when it was going somewhere with its lights on or parked somewhere answering a call, I'd feel just as safe as the status quo, where most of the time I see one it's a couple of cops wandering around aimlessly.
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