• Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Where I live it’s strictly one cop per car unless they’re training. That’s why they pull people over in packs.

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      7 hours ago

      That’s something I never got about cops in the US. Everywhere in Europe, there are always two cops per car, at least in the places I have been.

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        7 hours ago

        It’s to create the illusion that there’s more cops than there really are. Same reason behind take home cars.

        My city of about 300k people has about 30 cops patrolling at any given time.

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      8 hours ago

      I haven’t seen that before. I guess they really are just using a laptop and driving at the same time.

      • variants@possumpat.io
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        5 hours ago

        Or they sit at green lights because they are too into their laptop to notice the light change