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"How do we stop kids from becoming criminals? I know! Let's harass kids and their families until they become criminals! What could go wrong?"
by yellowapple 6y ago
"How do we stop kids from becoming criminals? I know! Let's harass kids and their families until they become criminals! What could go wrong?"
- kbenson 6y agoIt's worse than that, which would be a misguided attempt to help. As one former deputy described the program to reporters, the objective was to “make their lives miserable until they move or sue.” They aren't trying to stop the kids from becoming criminals, they are trying to get them to leave and be the criminals they assume they'll be elsewhere by harassing them. This is just a next-level variation of shipping homeless to other cities.
- phkahler 6y agoRight. Even if we were to accept the premise that the identified kids are at increased risk of becoming criminals, the things they are doing are not preventive and are actually pushing the kids down the path they (supposedly) want to keep them off.