you cant deter crime thru relentless force. the longer it’s applied, the more visible errors accrue & the more citizens feel occupied. distrust in authority dissolves cooperation and you can’t solve crimes without citizens’ help. when police are a community’s enemy solving crime there is impossible.
the goal was never to deter crime, the goal is to antagonize unrest to later justify political violence.
^ this.
Just an idea. Why don't we try raising the minimum wage to $20/hr and see what happens?
Yes! ETTD.
As always the people have the power! Refuse to cooperate!
It’s a fair point, but it’s also worth noting that most police have little interest in solving crimes.
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The crushing system has, and always will be, the true crime.
Yup. Russians learn early that social and economic advancement involves crime. We are going to learn that too.
Does ICE know that Americans have @ 2 guns per household 🧌 every household!
The law of Eristic Escalation: “imposition of Order = escalation of Disorder”
Is someone trying to 'deter crime'? I am pretty sure this is just your standard fascist takeover.
Unfortunately, deterring crime is not actually the point here.
"you cant deter crime thru relentless force." Sure you can. Kill everyone who argues or even looks potentially suspicious. If you kill enough people, there won't be enough left to effectively resist or commit many crimes.
The unspoken problem is how awful the current police state has become at solving any non-obvious crimes. More police has never worked, the idea it might should be absurd.
They aren't trying to solve crimes. It IS an occupying force.
Especially when the “crime wave” is imaginary and even the cops know it.
I'm all for deploying troops to private equity companies. There's way more crime taking place in those offices.
If you wanna steal people’s money don’t rob a bank open one.
Did you hear the one about the criminal President pretending to care about the law? It's too disgusting for Bluesky
Oh fucking indeed
No you can't, just look at DC. People are going out to eat now.
This is one of the primary concerns of sanctuary cities. It encourages immigrants to report crime and appear as witnesses which leads to lower crime rates overall improving the community for everyone. People won’t report or cooperate if they are afraid of the authorities.
Man with gun good.
“And remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”
"Power doesn't panic."
Of the few crimes "solved" by police, most are open and shut cases.
the ramifications go beyond the street, which perhaps you may even see go quiet for a time. but what about crimes you can’t see from the sidewalk? when victims of crime see law enforcement as just a cold and menacing force they will not consider become a witness against the person tormenting them.
yes, deterring crime is definitely not the point, but destroying the argument that it’s even logically possible is the first step in getting people with their heads up their asses to realize that. and it’s important to know there are other harms, particularly if it’s accomplishing the opposite goal.
A depressingly-large number of people have “violence can always be suppressed by even more violence” as an unshakable article of faith. We’re 50+ years into “we could have won the Vietnam War by ratcheting up the body count” being dogma for many, facts be damned.
"If no one will talk to you? You Can't Solve Murders NYPD manhunt for shooter: NYPD budget is ~$11B a year. has 36,000 uniformed officers and 20,000 civilian employees, making it the 7th largest army in the world Larger than Ukraine's military budget before Russia invaded bsky.app/profile/mekk...
Look, they're not there to stop crime. They're there to terrorize and kill. They're there to stop any resistance to complete fascism. They're un-human Nazi terror goons.
Don’t forget the immense profits from the prison industry. Every prison, regardless if it’s “for profit” makes money on prison labor.
The Sturmabteilung , original paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party of Germany. It played a significant role in Hitler's rise to power. Designed for providing protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of opposing parties, intimidating labor Unions.
That cold menacing force IMO increases crime because people still want justice. It's prohibition mobsters and the war on drugs cartels vs the legalization we see now with less crime. Except it's the other crimes, the beefs, the slights, the small claims. People are going to seek justice w/o cops.
100 million Luigis with neighbor beef, driving beef, work beef, spouse beef, insurance beef, store beef, mechanic beef, tax beef, sports beef, writer beef, teacher beef, coach beef. I remember hearing poisoning was more common when people couldn't get divorced. I think we're headed there overall.
The military aren't policemen unless they had that training specifically. I can't imagine how bored they must be and simply want to be home with their families and playing video games. They are trained for combat.
They don’t want solve crimes They don’t care about errors They actively want distrust They don’t want cooperate 77 million Americans voted for rifle butts to be smashed into the heads of Others This is a campaign promise being fulfilled
Politics don’t make sense to me But this is a campaign promise He vowed endless revenge on Others And 77m Americans said yes
It's what to totalitarian regimes do & we r there right now Just pay attention & look around
very good point. and the law can be a cannon when a scalpel of courts and better allocation of resources, reporting, and other methods ... and criminalizing sex work just makes criminals and causes more harm than good.
No solving his crimes is probably what Trump wants.
They don't want to deter "crime". They want to deter dissent and to make black and brown people disappear from their sight. They don't mind using violence and cruelty to achieve their ends.
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Not their job to solve crime. They are the boot stomping a human face, nothing more. And they like it that way, it’s fun and easy. Just ask them. Solving crime is hard work.
Well put! Justice must be seen to be done. Cops walk a vry fine line. We allow them and only them to use force against violence and injustice, but every hound is a wolf and when they are the threat, people turn on them like the mad dogs they are. And mad dogs get put down.
Truth. And the part that drives me nuts is that Peel said much the same in 1829. What is happening out there - has been happening for years - is not really policing. It's occupation and pacification. courses.worldcampus.psu.edu/welcome/crim...
One bedroom apartment is 2,000, and food prices are very expensive. Look for crime.
This is also the argument against local police enforcing immigration law. If immigrants are afraid to be a witness then they'll be under the thumb of organized crime from those countries
Exactly. What immigrant will come forward when they witness a crime? None. And who could blame them.
Patrol policing has been a problem for a long time.
Yes but they don't wish to stop crime just the appearance of crime. And the appearance that all crime is treated harshly.
Very well said.
Ask any school principal…
They’re there to commit crimes, not to deter them
They're not trying to deter crime
If that was the mission they’ve accomplished it
I can’t imagine anyone in this city who doesn’t want to see the pigs get the shit kicked out of them at this point. When it’s all over, they better hope we don’t decide it’s lamppost and piano wire time.
They became the community's enemy when they started demanding billions of dollars a year to do a bare minimum of policing.
Police are always a community's enemy.
deterring crime is obviously a pretext. the purpose is to intimidate the population and quash dissent. if the citizens feel occupied, mission accomplished.
This is always something that has struck me with murder solve rates, they should be the easiest to solve because either you get the evidence straight away, some people even phone police and say I just killed someone, or the community helps because it is so heinous and harmful to the community
