Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio...
by msla on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @05:24AM
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The Three Felonies A Day is an example of politics, not research, and has some rather motivated reasoning:
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22530/does-the-...
I'm on your side. Please don't make our shared side weaker by using poor arguments.
Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio...
by coldtea on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @05:54AM
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>The Three Felonies A Day is an example of politics, not research, and has some rather motivated reasoning:
A "sceptics" link is hardly refutation. These sites attract professional "minor detail pickers" and "technically-correct" pedants, who more often than not miss the forest for the trees.
The message is not the exact number of felonies per time period, it's that people can have all kind of laws broken and given causes to be arrested without them knowing it.
Even if it's 1 felony per month or 1 per year it's still more than enough, and that's the point of "thee felonies a day".
Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio...
by sjy on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @07:38AM
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Well, did you read the link? The top answer puts forward a convincing case that the book fails to show that "people can have all kind of laws broken and given causes to be arrested without them knowing it." There are wrongful charges and convictions in every legal system, and contrary to the last sentence of your comment, it matters a lot whether these occur 1,000 times more or less frequently.
Your local mafia clan are also nice people as long as you play by their rules (you can study organized crime in favelas where it is an ordering element similar to police).