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Um, no thank you. I've seen a mugging in Brazil. They are so frequent there that everyone I talked to has been mugged on the street. Friends of mine have been

Um, no thank you. I've seen a mugging in Brazil. They are so frequent there that everyone I talked to has been mugged on the street. Friends of mine have been carjacked and kidnapped for 8 hours. The police won't investigate a mugging. You're wasting your time to report it. Let's not "accept" crimes that we think are not serious. All crime needs to be investigated and appropriate punishment given. Living in a society where some crime is OK is not a great place to live.

rootoor 7y ago
I don’t think that increasing police presence and surveillance is the answer to stopping petty crime, it just punishes people who need help and or creates a corrupt police dept, exasperating the problem further. If we provide avenues for people to provide for themselves, crime will drop, and we avoid all of the chilling side effects of total surveillance.
sixothree 7y ago
I wouldn't consider mugging a petty crime.
- dsfyu404ed 7y ago
  I wouldn't consider anything violent or premeditated "petty"
  - SN76477 7y ago
    Correct. And I say over and over, it is time to evaluate the true cost of crime.
    - rhacker 7y ago
      I think that's a different statement than the one you said earlier. Society should accept a little crime to be free != evaluate the true cost of crime. So if there's a neighborhood that has the potential to sell Condos for $1.7M each but currently has houses that are $50k and we find out that the crime in the area is keeping that value so low - should we go after the thieves for stealing $1.7M from homeowners? I'm just saying because that's one of the ways you add up the "true cost of crime".
      - SN76477 7y ago
        Im thinking on a very small level. Policing efforts should cost less than the crime. Too often it is the opposite. I would rather someone speed through my neighborhood than have 3 police cars make a spectacle and spend thousands of dollars. Speeding is a problem fixed by a proper education (in theory) It is not fixed by chasing someone down and giving them a speeding ticket.

rootoor 7y ago

I don’t think that increasing police presence and surveillance is the answer to stopping petty crime, it just punishes people who need help and or creates a corrupt police dept, exasperating the problem further. If we provide avenues for people to provide for themselves, crime will drop, and we avoid all of the chilling side effects of total surveillance.

sixothree 7y ago

I wouldn't consider mugging a petty crime.

dsfyu404ed 7y ago
I wouldn't consider anything violent or premeditated "petty"
- SN76477 7y ago
  Correct. And I say over and over, it is time to evaluate the true cost of crime.
  - rhacker 7y ago
    I think that's a different statement than the one you said earlier. Society should accept a little crime to be free != evaluate the true cost of crime. So if there's a neighborhood that has the potential to sell Condos for $1.7M each but currently has houses that are $50k and we find out that the crime in the area is keeping that value so low - should we go after the thieves for stealing $1.7M from homeowners? I'm just saying because that's one of the ways you add up the "true cost of crime".
    - SN76477 7y ago
      Im thinking on a very small level. Policing efforts should cost less than the crime. Too often it is the opposite. I would rather someone speed through my neighborhood than have 3 police cars make a spectacle and spend thousands of dollars. Speeding is a problem fixed by a proper education (in theory) It is not fixed by chasing someone down and giving them a speeding ticket.