RE: Less Cops = ?
September 3, 2020 at 3:32 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2020 at 3:36 pm by onlinebiker.)
(September 3, 2020 at 3:20 pm)Ranjr Wrote:(September 3, 2020 at 3:15 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: Who's gonna take down the angry white dudes with assault weapons?
You?
Unlikely, but if I have no choice I'll give a go. Clearly the cops have no interest in it.
Are you agreeing that angry white dudes with assault weapons are a real threat?
When they ARE real.
When they are only in the imagination of anti-gun types - not so much.....
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(September 3, 2020 at 3:32 pm)Cecelia Wrote: In case it hasn't been said already, correlation does not imply causation.
Police presence does not deter crime. That's because police do not address the root causes of crime. All police can do, in most cases, is react to crimes that have already been committed. And in fact most crimes go unsolved. The idea that a man planning to murder his wife, suddenly decides against it because the local police station hired more cops (or decides to go through with it because the local police station got rid of more cops) is patently absurd. Same goes for the man planning to rob a bank, or a gas station.
When people say "Defund the police" they don't mean "Defund the police, and then do nothing else." They mean "Defund police, and fund social service programs, and schools, and other root causes of crime instead."
I'm not too bothered about police leaving because they can't shoot people willy nilly anymore. Good riddance to them. They're the bad ones, believe it or not.
A real expert there huh?
Exactly how many cops do you know? How often do you talk to them? How often do they bring beer? How often do you talk to them about the job?
How many are you related to?
How many live in your neighborhood?