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Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand... by gowld on Friday May 21, 2021 @03:44PM (#27238978)
When they come to bash your head in, it doesn't help if you "stop supporting them" .
Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand... by kibwen on Friday May 21, 2021 @03:49PM (#27239034)
As your skull is stoved in, you smile to yourself, euphoric in the knowledge that the market will eventually reach an equilbrium.
Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand... by eikenberry on Friday May 21, 2021 @04:50PM (#27239789)
Is being able to do something is better than being able to do nothing? You're saying it isn't.
Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand... by hannasanarion on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:28PM (#27240773)
hoping that maybe enough people hear about your case and are motivated by it enough to change their spending habits even in the face of monopoly and violent threats isn't exactly "being able to do something" as a vigilante's bullet passes through your skull.
Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand... by anigbrowl on Friday May 21, 2021 @07:36PM (#27241311)
False premise. The idea that this will work better with a market solution is laughable.
Re:Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand... by lliamander on Friday May 21, 2021 @07:02PM (#27241025)
Your description of how a market solution to policing might fail is how government policing already does fail.