Re:Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the...
by mschuster91 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @04:54PM
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> Such actions are most emphatically NOT pointless, they are preventative: informing someone that their bad behaviour is noticed is often enough to keep well-meaning citizens on the right side of the law.
The problem is selective enforcement. And let's face the truth: most laws are enforced only against minorities, or as someone else put it shortly:
> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Hell, just look at the marijuana prohibition, it was explicitly done to be able to criminalize lefties and Black persons [1].
The problem is selective enforcement. And let's face the truth: most laws are enforced only against minorities, or as someone else put it shortly:
> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Hell, just look at the marijuana prohibition, it was explicitly done to be able to criminalize lefties and Black persons [1].
[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-...