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The Police chided the parents for letting the children walk alone and about how unsafe the world is. The Police have fallen prey to the "the world is dangerous"
by jrs235 12y ago
The Police chided the parents for letting the children walk alone and about how unsafe the world is. The Police have fallen prey to the "the world is dangerous" narrative.
Did they just admit they can't keep/make it safe?
- Florin_Andrei 12y agoBut it is safer now, that's the paradox.
- jrs235 12y agoIs it though? And even if it is, is it a world we want to live in? (We need to name the evoking of Ben Franklin's "Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither" quote... _______'s Law).
- Florin_Andrei 12y agoIt's less stable, but crime rates have been on a decrease-a-palooza for decades.
- rayiner 12y agoTo be fair, Silver Spring, MD, probably isn't safer than it was. It was a pretty sleepy place 20-30 years ago, and in recent years has attracted a lot of urbanization as well as a significant amount of low-income immigration.
- cantankerous 12y agoThe police are naturally going to have a skewed view of society (modulo racial and class issues) because they spend their days dealing in bad situations. If your job is dealing with "bad people" doing "bad things" you're probably going see the world a little differently than folks who maybe never have to deal with the same situations.