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I wonder what does it take to get a society to have low criminality. IIUC Japan wasn't always this way. Could other societies become high trust? Singapore is. I
by socalgal2 1y ago
I wonder what does it take to get a society to have low criminality. IIUC Japan wasn't always this way. Could other societies become high trust? Singapore is. It wasn't always
- Tade0 1y agoIf self-checkout stores[0] are a measure of being such a place: Ageing of society. I've read last year's statistics about my country's criminality and two things stand out: 1. It's half what it was 20 years ago. 2. The largest group of perpetrators are people in their mid 30s, not 17-20yo like it was two decades ago and they focus on online fraud, not actually going places to commit crimes. [0] Specifically corner shops with a self-checkout machine and just one person behind the non-self checkout counter who wouldn't be able to react anyway should anyone leave with the goods.
- rayiner 1y agoSingapore was very deliberate and quite heavy handed in bringing that about: https://paulbacon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/zakaria_lee.pdf https://paulbacon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/z...