Re:Fighting crime by checking buildings, not suspects
by calvinmorrison on Saturday June 25, 2022 @11:21PM
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Because humanizing your chattel is a poor idea. It leads to corruption, favoritism, and being soft on the law. Community policing is a great idea, except for enforcers who realized that having people from the same neighborhood enforcing violence on the population tended to leave those enforcers a little soft.
Re:Fighting crime by checking buildings, not suspects
by kqr on Sunday June 26, 2022 @01:54AM
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I'm not entirely sure how high your sarcasm knob was turned up for this, but I'm choosing to interpret it as stuck on high.
Re:Fighting crime by checking buildings, not suspects
by 2fast4you on Sunday June 26, 2022 @02:34AM
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Huh, maybe the violence is the problem. Maybe officers SHOULD be a little soft
Re:Fighting crime by checking buildings, not suspects
by calvinmorrison on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @08:34PM
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violence is the supreme authority from which all authority is derived
Re:Fighting crime by checking buildings, not suspects
by incompatible on Sunday June 26, 2022 @02:41AM
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People loitering at a bus stop ... reminds me of something I read once, maybe it was:
https://www.abhmuseum.org/black-teens-arrested-while-waiting...
Re:Fighting crime by checking buildings, not suspects
by SantalBlush on Saturday June 25, 2022 @11:23PM
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I only see law enforcement looking friendly on their Facebook page. In person, they are armed to the teeth and not to be spoken to.
There used to be 'beat cops' whose job was to just walk around neighborhoods and be familiar with them; not the most efficient approach to policing, but also not the most intimidating or heavy-handed. Now you only see police outside a cruiser if they're doing crowd control, managing a crime scene, or doing community outreach, as a form of PR.