Prefer to live in? Care to clarify what what means?
People want fewer law enforcement officers (I get it, no one is advocating a complete defunding of the police.) People want to do away with "pretext" stops. People freely enjoy holding cops up as public enemy number one.
I think the City of Minneapolis is supposed to have something like 850 licensed cops, and there has even been an argument advanced that the 850 (the Minneapolis Charter number) is probably low, based upon need.
I think I read that as of the end of September they had something like 295 cops available for public "street" duty. This is largely because the City, for a couple of years, refused to hire more than about 650 (the City has been sued about that, I believe), and now with the attrition due to cops quitting in record numbers, people out with Covid, etc..., you're sitting with a skeleton force.
So what does that mean? Obviously, there simply aren't the required numbers of cops out on the streets perhaps dissuading someone from committing a crime, or doing the grunt work necessary to solve one that's been committed. It also means that there aren't enough cops to run preventative actions, like "bait cars" and the like to try to target people who are committing crimes like carjackings.
You guys don't want pretext stops because you believe they unfairly target minorities. That may or may not be true. But what I do know is that when you pull over a car for expired license tabs or similar pretextual reasons, cops tend to find some very bad sh!t including narcotics, guns and other weapons, etc..., as well as a lot of people who have warrants or are violating their parole, or whatever.
None of that is happening right now.
Couple that with the public neutering of the police that we've seen over the past few years, welcome to the new world order.
