Re:$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of h...
by ryuhhnn on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @05:03PM
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Nobody should be surprised that removing an entire portion of the population would cause the homicide rate to fall the same way nobody would be surprised that there is less rainfall on a day that has less cloud coverage. This isn’t really addressing my point at all. The point is that crime happens because of a set of conditions. You cannot expect crime to be reduced if you remove the “criminals” without addressing the conditions that made them criminals in the first place. Homicide is not a good example here, a better example would be things like petty crime, vandalism, etc.
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Re:$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of h...
by nataliste on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @05:09PM
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>You cannot expect crime to be reduced if you remove the “criminals” without addressing the conditions that made them criminals in the first place.
Unless the creation of criminals is caused by being victimized by criminals. Then that's exactly the solution.
Re:$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of h...
by Georgelemental on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @05:16PM
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> Nobody should be surprised that removing an entire portion of the population would cause the homicide rate to fall the same way nobody would be surprised that there is less rainfall on a day that has less cloud coverage.
If the homicide rate had fallen by only 2%, I would not have considered it notable. In effectively all societies, the vast majority of serious crimes are committed by a tiny sliver of the population who offend again and again. Deal with that sliver, and everyone else can breathe free.