• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    12 hours ago

    A friend who quit law enforcement (he was a sheriff’s deputy, not police) explained that while the sheriff’s office is publicly funded, most police agencies are funded by the general fund of a city, which is where the revenue of their tickets go, so it invariably evolves into rent seeking behavior as law enforcement.