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"Alternately, find a way to prevent crime." Easy. Stop criminalizing use of drugs and sex work. End the bullshit "war on drugs." We have a huge criminal class
by jzb 5y ago
"Alternately, find a way to prevent crime."
Easy. Stop criminalizing use of drugs and sex work. End the bullshit "war on drugs."
We have a huge criminal class in this country. Wage theft[1], for example, is a huge criminal enterprise but almost nothing is done to stop that.
We could also start working on real gun control like other countries that don't have a huge firearm homicide problem. That won't mean we end homicides, of course, but it would reduce the problem.
[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/epidemic-wage-theft-costing-workers-hundreds/ https://www.epi.org/publication/epidemic-wage-theft-costing-...
- rsj_hn 5y agoThe problem with always thinking there are easy solutions is that you never solve anything. OK, we release all the drug traffickers who are only guilty of that and no other crimes. Congratulations, you've reduced the jail population by 5%. Oh wait, an even bigger group of people now fill the prisons, but for theft. Oops. But if we free all those millions of imprisoned sex workers, that will solve the problem, right? Lol. Now that you've done all the performative ineffectual stuff, you still have the expensive prisons to worry about and no fix. So what do you - change the subject and move on to provide a facile solution for some other problem? I thought so.