Police in the states steal more than all thieves combined. (The only other category which also steals more than burglars are employers through wage theft.) And that is just based off very incomplete data as we lack transparency into most civil forfeiture at the local municipality level.

The money also does not go back into public service use. It's often funneled into items such as F-350 trucks for personal use, commemorative Super Bowl badges, or premium salmon-jerky dogfood (actual recent examples from Georgia).

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ljf 2 days ago | parent [-]

Anyone down voting, can you provide proof that proves the opposite?

I know wage theft is massive (world over).

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wahnfrieden 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

There’s no proof against it because it’s factual. They just don’t like the narrative it forms by pointing it out, or they think it’s justified by the other value police/employers create, or they think the victims had it coming (by committing “time theft” or being criminals themselves even if I convicted because police only go after bad people / they are bad people because police went after them)

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Nasrudith 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Well "wage theft" is also rhetorically abused to go beyond fraud, lack of payments or similiar actual misconduct and into bullshit Marx-tautology territory of "all profit is stolen from the worker". They think it helps spread their point but it really undermines it to anybody who catches on to their bullcrap.

	▲	dang 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sorry for the offtopicness, but please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44760952. That thread is a bit old so I want to make sure you get the reply.
	▲	wahnfrieden 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Well the statistic I mentioned does not include your Marxist reference and doesn't need to include such a number to hold true. There’s nothing Marxist about it.