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Re:NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could ... by mercurysmessage on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @12:30PM (#15443101)
So what are you going to do to someone walking through a neighborhood? Call the cops because someone is walking through a definitely public place?

If you witness an assault, yea go ahead.

Re:NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could ... by zo1 on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @11:16PM (#15447038)
Most people live in a tiny circle revolving around their place of living and their work-place. If we probably tracked every single human in a city, I would hypothesize that we'd find that a high-percentage of those that regularly "stray" out of those two areas in odd times, into places that are drastically different socio-economically than their own, are actually committing crimes.

It's quite unfortunate that we've gotten to a point whereby some rather nebulous terms such as "freedom of movement" ha gotten in the way of crime-prevention.

For all we know, keeping people from committing crimes by removing their ability to would actually keep them honest and force them to improve their lot. Unfortunately, it's an uncomfortable conversation that touches on police-state territory, so we probably won't have it in the public eye any time soon.

Re:NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could ... by mercurysmessage on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @08:15AM (#15449098)
It's also quite unfortunate that you think that would solve anything. It's also quite unfortunate that you are only thinking of one type of crime in your assessment.
Re:NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could ... by zo1 on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @06:17PM (#15454014)
It's unfortunate that you don't even want to consider if it might solve anything. That's why we can't have nice things, and we're forced to live in a broken society with broken homes spanning generations.