After the Parkland school resource officer Scot Peterson was acquitted, and then the inexplicable inaction of the Uvalde officers, I can’t help but wonder.
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Everything you need to know is right in the Law and Order intro.
> In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important, groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories
Police investigate crimes, they do NOT prevent crimes. By proxy they kind of do prevent crimes, since criminals are less likely to commit crimes as the likelihood they get caught increases. But in terms of direct crime prevention, that’s not the police’s job.
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