This is a valid point. However; Miranda does not become an issue until the police have identified a suspect based on other evidence. The real issue is the level of effort expended by police is dictated by who the victim is. Although Miranda also applies in killings of police officers, police are very nearly 100% successful at arresting or killing people suspected of killing police officers. While police remain somewhat competent at identifying and arresting suspects who kill white people, they have effectively declared open season on Black people.
lamigra wrote:namelessfly wrote:To understand the behavior of American police you have to understand that they have allowed themselves to become so utterly incompetent at dealing with real criminals that they feel the need to harass normal citizens for BS to justify their existence. Back in the good old days of Sgt Joe Friday's Dragnet, American police were just as competent at solving crimes as police in other countries. The arrest rate for homicide were very nearly 100% and arrest rates for other major crimes such as rape, robbery and aggravated assault were very high. Then in the early 1960s, arrest rates began to implode. Within a decade, the clearance rate for murder had dropped to about 2/3s. Your chances of literally getting away with murder had quintupled. Arrest rates for rape and robbery became abysmally low. That famous line from the Outlaw Biker Bounty Hunter in RAISING ARIZONA was exactly right on. "if you want to find an outlaw, call an outlaw. If you want to find a donut shop, call a cop.". As a consequence of police incompetence, crime rates soared during the. 1960s, 1970s, and 1990s. Criminals are smart enough to realize that if youdont have to do the time, there is no reason to not do the crime.
The police prefer to blame guns for the surge in murder rates. However, during the years of the historic increase in murder rate from 5 per 100,000 to 10 per 100,000, the percentage of murders committed with guns actually decreased.
The police prefer to avoid talking about how arrest rates for real, violent crimes were plummeting while the number of arrests for narcotics and prostitution were exploding. Peestering pushers and hassling hookers had become THE priority of American police.
The cops are basically useless and they know it. They compensate for their uselessness (and anatomical shortcomings) by hassling normal citizens about chicken shit tickets. We should be arresting them for loitering, not granting them more search and seizure authority.
This was very very enlightening post. You might want to take into account that Miranda Warnings became required in 1966. Telling criminals all the rights they had.
