A movement that cannot be criticized cannot achieve positive goals

Re:A movement that cannot be criticized cannot achieve posit... by AstralStorm on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:07AM (#26721336)

You can be progressive in one place while not solving the big systemic issue in another.

Stats are just numbers. If you police one area much more strongly, you will get higher numbers. Same when people in that area are poor, you would get more property crime.

The fact that the numbers stay high point to a failure of policing as the correct approach. More of a failed approach apparently does not fix it.

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Re:A movement that cannot be criticized cannot achieve posit... by mc32 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @08:10AM (#26723663)

These are crimes reported by victims so I think it’s not the same as buying weed or knocking a bodega and getting caught.

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Re:A movement that cannot be criticized cannot achieve posit... by AstralStorm on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @09:29AM (#26724610)

Indeed, but even responsiveness to reporting depends on kind of policing, and the kind of victim. You get very different responses, that even not including the social bias for reporting certain crimes by specific people, and whether vigilantism is seen as the answer, or silence - with reporting seen as waste of time.

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