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A comment on Too Many Cops Are Told They’re Soldiers Fighting a War. How Did We Get Here?. Parent comment

Re:Too Many Cops Are Told They’re Soldiers Fighting a War. H... by mercurial on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @12:09PM (#6020695)
I'm not sure of what you're trying to say here. Is it OK for the police to harass people because they're black, or sport a beard, or wear the wrong T-shirt? That's what you call "preventive policing"?
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Re:Too Many Cops Are Told They’re Soldiers Fighting a War. H... by dsr_ on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @12:22PM (#6020805)
You can't deny the effectiveness of putting everyone in jail.
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Re:Too Many Cops Are Told They’re Soldiers Fighting a War. H... by gizmo686 on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @01:07PM (#6021168)
Yes I can. Think of how much more effective it would be to just execute them.
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Re:Too Many Cops Are Told They’re Soldiers Fighting a War. H... by gknoy on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @12:27PM (#6020842)
You must have a different definition of "effective" than I do. Prison is like graduate school for criminal behavior.
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Re:Too Many Cops Are Told They’re Soldiers Fighting a War. H... by drharris on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @01:05PM (#6021138)
He didn't say they get back out.
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Re:Too Many Cops Are Told They’re Soldiers Fighting a War. H... by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @04:35PM (#6022605)
Crime still happens in jail. If you put everyone (presumably, except for the jail guards) in jail, you don't reduce the crime rate, you increase it and change the location.
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Re:Too Many Cops Are Told They’re Soldiers Fighting a War. H... by gizmo686 on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @01:08PM (#6021183)
Yes I can. Think of how much more effective executing them would be.
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