From retired police officer JT:

Hello. I just read your article about the current state of affairs in law enforcement. After 20 years in law enforcement in the NYPD I must say it was spot on. Not everything we did was to combat crime as revenue generating was considered more important. The amount of officers dedicated strictly to revenue generating would shock most people. Most of my reports were after the crime was committed that went nowhere. I would laugh when people would ask if we were looking for their car, property, missing loved one or the person that just assaulted or robbed them. We had no time to do these investigations and was as you stated simply for insurance purposes. Only high crimes such as serious assault, murder and rape are investigated by the detective bureau or prosecuted by a district attorney. This got much worse after 911. Now “terror” takes precedence over even more high crimes as looking for “boogeymen” under every rock takes a lot of manpower.