• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Sure, but they’re under-resourced for cybercrimes. They have a lot of beat cops out giving tickets and beating up black people, but probably nobody who knows anything about credit card scams.

    Local police need a readjustment of priorities and tiers of staff. Ideally we’d have:

    1. no force authorization and no weapons, can only issue citations - these would be your beat cops pulling people over, directing traffic, and responding to minor disputes
    2. detectives - no force authorization, but can investigate crimes - these show up after the crime to collect evidence
    3. armed enforcers - can arrest and use lethal force, and only show up if the first two groups can’t handle it; this is what we have today, but ideally would be a much smaller group than 1

    The cybercrime division would fall under group 2, and would probably be just one or two people trained on that type of detective work.

    Each tier should have a different uniform, so the public knows exactly who they’re dealing with, and each tier would be required to have body cam footage live-streamed to HQ. The first group makes up the biggest part of your force, and which is bigger between 2 and 3 depends on the types of crime that are prevalent in your area.