I’m in the US and honestly I’ve just kinda just accepted this as a fact of life, cops won’t do shit, similar to many developing nations in the world. Anything short of actually someone dying, and cops don’t seem to care. Got mugged? Oh well, tough luck buddy, at least you didn’t die

How has your experience been? Is your country/area different?

  • lurch (he/him)
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    I’m in EU. In my local state wide news app (states are smaller here than in the US), I see a few thieves get arrested every month in this region. I’d say 2 per month on average. Sometimes on the spot. Other times later. Sometimes just reports about the police still searching for them with helicopters etc… It’s very likely not all cases are reported or news worthy. So the real number is probably much higher.

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    The number of reports of thievery in the app without mention they got caught is about 3 times higher. I estimate.