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Do you have and data or more thoughts on this? I ask because we tend to associate the police with "fighting crime" where the reality seems to be that they are
by vb6sp6 5y ago
Do you have and data or more thoughts on this?
I ask because we tend to associate the police with "fighting crime" where the reality seems to be that they are mostly "responding to crime that has already happened". There will certainly be a few examples of police stopping crime in the moment but you would literally needs cops everywhere to even try to catch a decent percentage of violent crime that is committed.
- drekipus 5y ago> mostly "responding to crime that has already happened". Yes the police, and justice, are to act as a deterrent to crime, moreso than "respond before a crime happened" I highly suspect that the respect for the law has dropped, and with ideas of defunding the police, there's probably less resources as well. This is what was asked for.
- vb6sp6 5y agoIs there data to suggest any of this?
- drekipus 5y agoData to suggest that the law is meant as a deterrent or data to suggest my suspicions? (Edit: because I don't think "data" can help you in either of these situations)
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoEither way. Data. (It's not data only if it supports one side. Either it's data no matter which side it supports, or it's not data.)
- vb6sp6 5y agoData suggests that murders aren't affected by deterrents like the death penalty: https://www.amnestyusa.org/a-clear-scientific-consensus-that-the-death-penalty-does-not-deter/ https://www.amnestyusa.org/a-clear-scientific-consensus-that... To claim that murders are up because people don't "respect" police seems absurd to me.