Portland Police solved “property crime” cases at rates dramatically under 15% and also convince the city we wouldn’t be better off just taking those losses and keeping the $200 million budget we give them each year.

Violent liars who are also bad at math and risk assessment.

Note that the percentages are based on the total number of property crimes reported to police - So they don’t take into account the massive number of crimes that go un-reported by folks not willing to work with the police.

Pulling the data from here: https://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/395799413/how-many-crimes-do-your-police-clear-now-you-can-find-out

Also “solved” and “cleared” here are not super inaccurate. These are reported crimes who have been marked cleared because there was an arrest in the case.

Police did not prevent any of these crimes and statistics on incarceration indicate they won’t be preventing future pain.