Re:Citizen CEO offered to personally fund LA arson manhunt f...
by nitrogen on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:04PM
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When you witness and you or people you know fall victim to crime, you don't need to be told about it, there are no media involved, no talking heads with talking points.
Real people are having real crimes committed against them. Wanting a society where that doesn't happen is as far from racist as you can get. The people who stole $9k of my former startup's equipment were just as likely white, anyway.
Re:Citizen CEO offered to personally fund LA arson manhunt f...
by hangtwenty on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:48PM
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Enforcement has problems. The enforcement tends to reproduce existing power structures, including both racist policing and classist policing.
It is racism, and it's been amplified by news media which selectively report on crimes ("if it bleeds, it leads") and fear-based social media like Nextdoor and local Facebook groups which give a megaphone to every overly suspicious neighbor and self-appointed "neighborhood watch" member.
What's changed isn't the amount of crime. It's the amount of it you get told about.