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476. What Are the Police for, Anyway?

Freakonomics Radio

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The New York Police Academy

The quarles intentivis arresting and ticketing to the point where you create these very over zealous cops. It's disingenuous to try to weed out people that might become problems when you're creating the problem based on what you incentivize. For instance, it's like boot camp in the police academy. And their justification for treating you that way is their instilling discipline. That's completely opposite of, like, i sat there for six months and let you get as yellow in my face because hit's supposed to be teaching me discipline. Sos like wild.

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