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Re:Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's pho... by pixl97 on Saturday December 09, 2023 @02:18PM (#38584929)
> they don’t prevent crime, they just enumerate it.

This isn't always correct and is rather myopic.

Quite often laws will issue punishments for some behaviors, but also issue things like funding for programs that work on the roots of why particular crimes occur.

Now, laws that punish post ad hoc are always easier to measure and see, because it's much harder to prove that you prevented something that only had a probability of happening in the first place.

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Re:Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's pho... by NoLsAfterMid on Saturday December 09, 2023 @06:26PM (#38587273)
> Quite often laws will issue punishments for some behaviors, but also issue things like funding for programs that work on the roots of why particular crimes occur.

That still requires enforcement. The existence of a law does not imply existence of enforcement, much less wide-spread enforcement (see e.g. wage theft, auto breakins, petty theft, etc).

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