There are all kinds of problems with this video offering an apologetic for police brutality. But using the data cited in the video reveals a whole other issue with the system.

A commenter on the video says:

If officers contact 53,000,000 people per year, and there are 670,000 cops, and let’s say 250 working days per year (52 weeks minus 10 vacation days). There would be 167 million cop days per year. Fifty-three million contacts divided by 167 million cop days means that on average a cop has contact with 0.32 citizens per day. Or the average cop contacts one citizen every 3 days. If we can get cops moving at the breakneck speed of 1 citizen contact per day, we could lay off 2/3 of all cops.

I just saved this country billions of dollars.

A cop-lover, antagonistic to the embarrassing math, pointed out that a lot of cops work 12-hour shifts rather than 8-hour shifts. This would change the math, and the number of contacts per shift change to 0.5 contacts per shift. The rise in contacts per shift is only due to longer shifts. Contacts/hour would remain the same, and the point remains.

Personally, I would like to see police abolished, but the point is that government workers are all terribly inefficient, because they’re paid by money taken by force. The “customers” are forced to pay whether they’re happy with the service or not.

I happened across this video that illustrates the point that so many cops could be laid off with little effect, because the government is so wasteful. Enjoy the proven point in this 1 minute video.