Violent crime hit historic lows, so cops switched to busting vagrancy
Good news: violent crime across America dropped to historic lows. Less good news: police departments apparently still have monthly arrest quotas to hit.
Violent crime in the States has fallen off a cliff. Murders, assaults, the genuinely terrifying stuff — all down to levels rarely seen in modern history.
So naturally, arrests for petty, low-level nonsense like vagrancy shot right up. A new report from FWD.us revealed that while communities got dramatically safer from real violence, police forces simply shifted their manpower toward cuffing people for basically existing in public without enough cash in their pockets.
Turns out that when there are fewer bank robbers and carjackers to chase down, the machinery of law enforcement just pivots to penalizing poverty on a sidewalk.
Nothing screams public safety quite like treating a sleeping person on a bench as a bigger legal priority than a shootout.
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