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And then their boss gets mad at your boss's boss, then you find yourself doing the midnight shift in the area where police get shot at daily.

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I was operating on the, perhaps faulty, assumption that the police higher ups are interested in stopping this sort of crime.

They are far less interested in stopping crime than they are in ensuring the wheels of the capitalist world-eating machine remain sufficiently greased.

The primary role of the police after all is to protect capital, not people.

Shutting down a port would cost the billionaires (who donate to the politicians who are in charge of the police) money, so its much preferable to the police and those in positions of power over them to let the crime run rampant so long as the ports keep operating so that the billionaires profits can flow unimpeded.

I assure you that the people having their supercars, million dollar farm equipment, and other goods stolen and shipped overseas are also capitalists, and consider their stolen assets to be capital as well.

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