Vast majority of street crime is failed social policy
Corporate crime is lack of en forcement
Funny how the regime handles these
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Vast majority of street crime is failed social policy
Corporate crime is lack of en forcement
Funny how the regime handles these
Policing is, and always has been reactive. And that's how it is intended to be, by design.
Complaining that it's not preventing crime isn't really helpful, since that's not what it's supposed to do.
If you want prevention, you need to look elsewhere.
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That said, the things that do actually prevent crime have been studied for centuries and are well known.
The problem is none of those are cheap quick fixes, and when governments change every 4 years, those programs tend get cut for ideological reasons, and arent given the time to become deeply effective.
Policing is about protecting wealth and social hierarchy, not public safety or public interests. But no one who wants to invest more in policing will say this out loud, because they wouldn't get votes. So, complete falsehoods about investing more in policing to reduce crime are presented instead, as you and the article point out
Are you talking specifically about Canadian police? Because here in Denmark, the police make a big effort to prevent crime. As far as I know, it works pretty well.
Of course not all possible efforts to prevent crime can be done by the police, a lot of it is up to the government.
Complaining that it’s not preventing crime isn’t really helpful, since that’s not what it’s supposed to do.
It is helpful, because a large extent of the voter base does think that increasing the police personnel will prevent crime.
So we should make policy based on what people believe rather than on what's objectively true?
Both, because what people believe to be true dictates their behavior and policies should account for that.
But in any case, we were not talking about policy. We were talking about "complaining" about policy. What I said is that it is helpful to "complain".
The answer is mental healthcare and economic opportunities. If you've ever been to a local jail, you'll quickly realize that the majority of people there needed a mental health intervention in their early childhood. Problem is that there's no will by anyone to do it. Parents are resistant because of the stigma. Even if they're not, the cost of mental healthcare is too high if it's not covered by insurance. Even if it's covered you get a p-doc once a month for 15 minutes. Nevermind trying to get a diagnosis from a child who can't explain their symptoms because their symptoms are just normal for them in the first place. Then you have to try different medications at different doses and get everyone on board to take the medication on time every day. That's all if you can get a doctor that listens to what a kid says. Doing all this as an adult is exhausting, can't imagine trying to do it as a kid and having to trust a number of other adults not to fuck up.
More police funding just means more arrests, not fewer crimes.
You can't blame police when our "justice system" (i.e. our courts) makes it a habit of releasing high-risk offenders.
Every time a violent offender is arrested nearby, I check to see what they were arrested for, and without fail it's multiple failure to comply with court order, and a half dozen breach of probation orders, etc.
And then they are released on a promise to appear... where they re-offend, because, why not?
Until judges are held partially responsible for any crimes committed by people who were released, things will never change.
And I can't imagine how much it costs taxpayers to arrest the same clowns over and over and over again.
I'm surprised this is this far down.
Yes, there's several social changes that need to happen, but there's people that will committee crime regardless. Those people need to be kept separate from society.
Try explaining that to a Conservative. In fact, even very progressive politicians need to understand this.
I voted for Projet Montreal and Valérie Plante but unfortunately it seems like her answer to "crime is raising" is to dump even more money on the police.
Because policing is reaction? I thought this was obvious. Prevention is key.