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476. What Are the Police for, Anyway?

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The us. Leads the world in prisoners with more than two million people incarcerated. We are also number one in the incarceration rate category, 629 prisoners per 100 thousand residents. An incarceration rate like ours requires a lot of policing, and we have that too,. Nearly 700 thousand full time law enforcement officers. And what happens if you think of policing as philanthropic?

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