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Overseas the end results if the police are totally defunded or weak is that you tend to end up with really strong differences / ghettos around places where ther
by slownews45 5y ago
Overseas the end results if the police are totally defunded or weak is that you tend to end up with really strong differences / ghettos around places where there is and is not security.
It's like gated communities on steroids, but starts to include office, mfg and other items like retail (which totally leave places with no security). Can result in shocking differences on both sides of the fence that usually separates these areas. Ironically the police then tend to follow along and provide better security to what are not better areas (if they have any capacity).
- tpmx 5y agoOverseas where?
- z3ncyberpunk 5y agoEverywhere? Have you not looked outside?
- throwaway15579 5y agoThis is how life is in basically every Central and South American city, in my experience. As soon as a family has some relatively small amount of wealth they will spend it on ultra-secure apartment buildings, tall walls around their house, razor-wire walls and fences, full coverage security cameras and intruder detection, etc.
- tpmx 5y agoI saw jarring signs of that when I visited Mexico City in 2003 - I stayed with a business partner who lived in a walled community guarded by private guards openly carrying submachine guns. Can only imagine that the security has been dialed up a few notches by now. (The source of my confusion: I interpreted "overseas" in a quite literal way - I'm from Europe.)
- medium_burrito 5y agoDid you visit one of the armored car dealerships in Polanco? They are badass.
- tpmx 5y agoI did not. I think random violent carjackings had just started happening at scale. The guy who hosted me was getting a bit worried.