Some think my number was hyperbole, it’s not here’s the source
Spending Hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to catch people committing
$3 crimes. So that tax payers can pay millions to put them through the
legal system and eventually jail
them<<<<<<<<<<
There are people who believe that the function of the police is the prevention of crime, but that’s not true - the function of the police is social control and protection of property (also slave catching!)
It costs more money to pay those cops to stand there than a hundred fare jumpers catching a ride.