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Nobody is advocating ESP, thought crimes, or not arresting murderers where possible. Let's stop wasting everyone's time with this silliness.
by hackuser 11y ago
Nobody is advocating ESP, thought crimes, or not arresting murderers where possible. Let's stop wasting everyone's time with this silliness.
- mindslight 11y agoSilliness? I'm talking about something quite fundamental - to get desired behavior, should we punish actions or control ideology? I assert that the latter is the path to madness. It should not really matter whether individual cops are racist or not, iff they're actually subject to the law they purport to uphold. I cannot kidnap someone for four hours, say I'm "dropping charges", and then consider the matter closed. The police/justice system insist that while they've created a culture that did something very bad (racism), they'll promise to reform internally. But if this were possible, then how did it get to this point? And is the reform we want really just getting the "correct" number of white people unjustly hassled and arrested? You can't fix policing without aligning incentives - as I said, stop externalizing the collateral damage from policing by a low-probability reverse lottery. In a just society, we would expect to see underemployed people insulting cops while smoking oregano, hoping to get incorrectly arrested and earn money for their wasted time.