4 ms·
This is the future nationally. We have a nationwide shortage of police officers that will only get worse. Surveillance is the only way that we can mitigate this
by chaostheory 5y ago
This is the future nationally. We have a nationwide shortage of police officers that will only get worse. Surveillance is the only way that we can mitigate this problem.
- errantmind 5y agoIt won't even do that. I live in Houston and there is no amount of security footage that will get HPD to investigate a crime if they aren't inclined. This has been proven to me on multiple occasions.
- chaostheory 5y agoThe end result of not enforcing the law long term will be a "hollowing out". More people will leave and there will be even less money for public services.
- spacemanmatt 5y agoGuess who loves the prospect of hollowing out Houston
- zardo 5y agoDallas?
- throwaheyy 5y agoA certain party that feels they need to tilt the voter base to be able to win, because they otherwise can’t win fair and square.
- PolygonSheep 5y agoIs it the party that has 11 out of 16 seats on the Houston city council? (The Houston city council is, in theory, nonpartisan but one party has a de facto ~2/3 majority)
- throwaheyy 5y agoNo idea. The party I’m thinking of is also the party that is doing everything they can to make it harder to vote.
- patrick451 5y agoYou've got it all backwards. They are making it harder to cheat. It's the other party that can't win if they play by the rules.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- netizen-936824 5y agoOh so I assume there must be evidence of widespread cheating then?
- patrick451 5y agoYes.
- spacemanmatt 5y agoProduce evidence or take an L. I bet it's not the first time.
- spacemanmatt 5y agoProduce evidence or take an L. I bet it's not the first time.
- patrick451 5y agoYou believe, I would imagine, that a hockey stick graph of rising temperatures is evidence for anthropogenic climate change. I believe that the hockey stick graphs of votes going nearly solely for Biden at the 11th hour are evidence of spread cheating. But there's mountains of other corroborating evidence. Look it up yourself. I'm not your research librarian. And it would be a waste of time anyway. No matter what I produce, you will dismiss it.
- rurban 5y agodepends where you live. in River Oaks there are there instantly. corruption pays off.
- bobkazamakis 5y ago>This is the future nationally. We have a nationwide shortage of police officers that will only get worse maybe if we keep buying them anti tank weapons and be immune to any punishment, the problem will naturally fix itself!
- scotuswroteus 5y agoI can think of other ways: "For example, one recent analysis of 911 calls across eight cities in the country found that 23 to 39 percent were for low-priority or non-urgent issues like noise complaints." https://www.vox.com/2021/4/14/22374196/calling-the-police-violence-alternatives https://www.vox.com/2021/4/14/22374196/calling-the-police-vi...
- chaostheory 5y agoNoise complaints can potentially escalate into future violence if an authority doesn't make a call. I'm also not sure what you mean by other ways. The number of new recruits keeps shrinking year after year and the number of retiring officers keeps growing. I just don't see another alternative from mass surveillance unless you have a homogenous, group first population like Japan.
- netizen-936824 5y agoJapan doesn't have crime because the police are super involved in the communities they patrol, not because they're homogeneous Police in the US don't even live in communities they patrol
- chaostheory 5y agoIt’s both, but it’s mainly due to the culture of putting the group ahead of the individual, respecting authority, and with a homogeneous population that makes it possible. The downside is that same culture tends to be more on the xenophobic side if you ever decide to stay in Japan.
- twoxproblematic 5y ago