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So your position is that the police are untrustworthy and abuse their power?

Of course they're corrupt and abusive. But that's fairly tangential to crime rates unless they take it to an extreme.

I think we ought to walk backwards from your question a bit. Is the position that the police are corrupt and abusive something that I'm supposed to disagree with? Is it supposed to be something obviously untrue (hint: it's not)?

Police track crime stats. By your own admission they are corrupt. Do you think there might be a conflict of interest here?

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