Please don't comment like this here.

Could you please be more specific?

I thought it was well-known by now that police in the United States are either violent, unintelligent thugs or complicit in allowing same to operate. He asked a sincere question, this is a sincere answer.

I wish to abide by the rules for commenting here, so I respectfully request what you mean by "like this".

The comment in question violates the guidelines by introducing a classic flamewar topic without anything new to say, by your own admission. It also does so uncivilly and without substantive contribution to the discussion: the poster's question was not about the abilities of law enforcement, but about the inherent inaccuracy of IP-based geolocation.

Please re-read the guidelines if you haven't recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>I thought it was well-known by now that police in the United States are either

This "well-known" is a poor way to make arguments. Try to substitute "police" with something like "black people" and you might see the problem.

I wasn't making an argument; I was asking a question and providing the context for my confusion.

PS: Cops choose to be cops.