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Financial incentives have given us ever more aggressive policing ‐ if we want real change, we must change those incentives

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Posted by Iblis 2020-06-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Violent crime has dropped since 1994, but our criminal system became even more punitive.

And he doesn't see a connection?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-11 01:05|| 2020-06-11 01:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Said the same thing about #1.

There are a couple of good ones in the list but the main problem is that the incentivizers are the politicians behind the scenes, not the cops.

Get rid of sovereign immunity, cut back on the over militarization of police, get rid of civil forfeiture laws. Etc. etc. Oh, and lock up the professional instigators.

Posted by AlanC 2020-06-11 08:12|| 2020-06-11 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Making the police a punishing, occupying force that the locals hate and whose focus is on raising revue is NOT a good way to lower crime. It just isn't. Police couldn't care less about keeping people safe, they just want to seize people's stuff and keep their jobs (the real nasty ones also want to get their rocks off hurting people). And the politicians want to use the police to signal that they're "doing something". Whatever that may be. I think the idea of disbanded SWAT teams in any town smaller than 100,000 people in inherently unworkable (most Western states and larger rural areas would be instantly disarmed), but he has a number of goods points. Civil asset forfeiture is just another way of saying "theft", and sovereign immunity allows police to do almost anything they want without consequences. And allowing cities to benefit from the tickets and fines they levy naturally makes the police into revenue collectors eager to levy more petty tickets that turn into a stream of cash.

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2020-06-11 08:38|| 2020-06-11 08:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Until Antifa and BLM riots crime has been relatively low across the U.S. with the exception of Blue hotspots such as Chicago and others.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-06-11 09:37|| 2020-06-11 09:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Remember during the Obama years, the Dept of Education had a SWAT. Don't know if its still around now.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-11 11:25|| 2020-06-11 11:25|| Front Page Top

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