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I can't even imagine living in a state where a city with 1.4 million people having 4 robberies in participating stores. That's crazy. Of course I live in Mich
by brohoolio 12y ago
I can't even imagine living in a state where a city with 1.4 million people having 4 robberies in participating stores.
That's crazy.
Of course I live in Michigan.
I've been thinking about crime a bunch after listening to the Serial podcast and thinking about The Wire. Crime is expensive. Trial, police, incarceration are all resource intensive. It would be amazing to have those resources available for city residents to do something else, like have a cleaner town, better schools, safer roads.
- semi-extrinsic 12y agoIn the US there are, sadly, big financial interests in keeping the prison population high (the prison industry complex). Couple with what seems to be a very high reluctance towards giving someone who is mentally ill treatment instead of prison, and no real public mental health care, and you get what you get.
- pavel_lishin 12y agoI don't think it's just that; I think that in America, there's this huge belief system that focuses on individuals, self-reliance, etc - and the flip side of that is a the belief that if you commit a crime, well, you've made your bed, and that bed is in a prison cell, and you'll be sleeping there for a really long time.