People reeeeeeeally overestimate the importance of cops in domestic situations.
Unless they actually walk in on domestic violence happening or catch a home invader red-handed in your antique jewelry, they’re kinda useless.
Like I’ve been in some of those scenarios and watched that happen first hand. They show up, half-assedly offer their condolences, ask you a bunch of times if you’re SURE what you say happened even happened anyway, maybe take a statement and leave and never do anything with that statement
“oooh you hate the cops until you need them!” To do what, man? Show up 20 minutes later and shrug their shoulders saying there’s nothing they can do? Beat the shit out of a teenager for having a gram of weed? Shoot someone dead at a traffic stop? Sorry but I don’t actually need someone to do any of those things for me.
The police shows on TV are a super important part of this because they spread and reinforce the belief that the police actually spend a ton of time and resources investigating most crimes until they’re solved. When in reality the rate for solving most crimes is pretty hilariously low, especially in the US.
“Statistically, U.S. law enforcement agencies are the worst crime solvers in the Western world. According to official data, there are arrests for about one-eighth of burglaries, about one-third of rapes, and about two-thirds of murders. But official methods of reporting can distort and exaggerate murder clearance rates, and the official clearance rate has held steady for three decades, despite strong declines in the rate murders are being committed.
According to FBI statistics, Flint, Michigan has the worst murder clearance rate at 17.5%. It is followed by Honolulu, Hawaii (18.8%), Midland, Michigan (23.1%), Saginaw, Michigan (23.3%), and Lima, Ohio (24.5%).”
Like 1/3rd of the time they won’t even PRETEND to catch your murderer lol
“I was more insecure when I was 20 than I am at 47. At 47 it’s like, “You need me to put on a crazy dress with mirrors? Yeah, sure. I’m going to work the shit out of this!” I don’t know what I’m doing. It’s, like, you give less fucks. [..] Aging is the greatest. It really gives you more space to be that person in the mirrored dress who has always been inside.”
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Sandra Oh for InStyle.
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— Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ruth Tiffany Beuscher written c. July 1962
