My town has less than 8k people and the crime rate is pretty high. A lot of property theft and damage. Violent crime is fairly high. We've had a few murders over the years, but a lot of things don't get reported as statistics because a few of the murders were ruled as suicides or accidents and a lot of the property theft and damage is not reported because the cops don't care and don't really do much.
Allegedly, someone high up in the police force is actually selling drugs and only busts people who sell drugs without going through him or who buy drugs from one of his competitors.
They also randomly pull over vehicles for no traffic violations at all if they suspect the drivers are black. Had a friend who kept getting pulled over and as soon as they saw he was white they would say "nevermind" and finally one of them actually admitted they pulled him over because they assumed from the truck that he was black.
Although, I think it's better than a neighborhood where my mom shopped for a house in New Mexico. We were getting dirty looks from the locals as we drove through and as we went around a corner where there was trash (including a mattress) dumped on the side of the road, I commented that it looked like a dump site for a body. Apparently I wasn't alone in thinking that. A month later I saw in the news that they found the body of a teenage boy under that very same mattress. oh, and that neighborhood had TWO Mexican cartels and more registered sex offenders than cops. So, we decided we didn't want to live there.
I agree that the government should no outsource certain things to companies-- anything where they can penalize people like with the roads or with prisons, should not be allowed. Especially since they profit from keeping people incarcerated & do all sorts of underhanded things-- like when people owe a fine and instead of the government handling it, a company then charges a fee for the fine and gets poor people on a payment plan where the fees keep recurring and none of the money paid is counted toward the actual fine and if the people can't pay they end up going to jail.
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