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This. The problem is that Baltimore treats crime as being separate from criminals. Almost all crime is committed by a tiny, tiny group of people - in NYC, 327
by local_crmdgeon 3y ago
This. The problem is that Baltimore treats crime as being separate from criminals.
Almost all crime is committed by a tiny, tiny group of people - in NYC, 327 people commit 1/3rd of all shoplifting. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/nyregion/shoplifting-arrests-nyc.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/nyregion/shoplifting-arre...
We used to just warehouse people like this, and we stopped because that was mean and did not get us likes on Instagram.
- pfannkuchen 3y agoThere is a theoretical limit to the rate at which a society can digest unsocialized people, and this is affected by the exposed surface area of the clumps of unsocialized people. Where by “unsocialized” I mean with respect to that particular society - people in any society are “unsocialized” with respect to any other sufficiently separate society. We seem to have run into a case of serious indigestion. Traditionally we warehoused people who weren’t being digested successfully. Why we stopped is a really interesting question.
- ironcurtain 3y agoDo you have any tangible data to back up the first sentence or is it just a desire to avoid facing hard reality?
- pfannkuchen 3y agoYou mean the hard reality that a society can digest an infinite number of unsocialized people instantaneously?
- local_crmdgeon 3y agoI absolutely agree. I hate that "lock up criminals" has become a race-loaded statement, because in Baltimore (and in my neighborhood) the victims are Black/POC. This doesn't impact Becky on IG, it impacts the older people who spent their lives turning America's urban areas around. It's really, really unjust.