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>Consider that, when an area has more surveillance, more people who commit crimes are caught. All of a sudden, you’re disproportionately catching minority crimi
by whatshisface 3y ago
>Consider that, when an area has more surveillance, more people who commit crimes are caught. All of a sudden, you’re disproportionately catching minority criminals.
Turn the coin over to the other side - you're catching criminals victimizing minorities. Nothing is simple, is it.
- BriggyDwiggs42 3y agoUh sure, but that doesn’t effect the placement of new surveillance systems, which is the reason I mentioned it. Also, I think you’re sort of saying that because you think catching them is a huge success, and that that offsets the harm, but it’s not gonna do a ton of good when nothing has been fixed about the underlying causes. At best the victims get catharsis, where if that money imprisoning the criminal were spent on something like providing economic opportunities or funding schools they’d likely benefit more and be more secure against future crime (not that its either or).