Away from the story a bit, looking at the US from afar I see millions of people entering the US from the southern border - how is this expected to play out? Will these people fit fairly easily into the economy, or will they likely be resorting to crime to get by?
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Considering how often police lie and plant evidence, I would say a hefty number are innocent
> Considering how often police lie and plant evidence How often is that, exactly?
They have been found to lie 6.3% on reports but those only include lies that were caught. Planting evidence would be rarer.
Police lie during questioning as a tactic.
Selectively enforcing crimes is very common
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#413I should point out to those not from the US that this is how Americans view the US. There is a lot of crime, the government and NGOs are on the side of the criminals etc. It is up voted to the top as well, with agreement in the replies, this is how Americans view the US. The US incarcerates more people than China, despite China having more than four times as many people, but the view obviously is the incarceration ra…
Has it occurred to you that different countries, and different groups of people within those countries, might have different rates of criminal behavior?
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I consider myself a liberal, but while I think pretty much all drug possession charges should be dropped and decriminalized, violent crime? Robbery? Those folks should absolutely be in jail. I don't care if we have to build tent cities to incarcerate them. You hurt someone intentionally, you should not be breathing free air for a while.
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Sending most of the citizens below retirement age of a province to concentration camps certainly seems like a normalized practice in China today. It was wrong when we did the same here in the USA with Japanese Americans (George Takei wrote about his time there) and we should not normalize this mass imprisonment without individual right to fair trial.
Just for awareness, the US also had people of Japanese heritage sent from Latin America to the US to put them in camps. Peru sent 3000 Peruvians with Japanese heritage.
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As someone who owns a Hyundai and a Kia, this is an interesting thread to read. Going to look into some safety steps moving forward.
A good option is to install one or two hidden switches that need activating corectly for the fuel pump to run - even with your key they won't be able to take your car. I think it's Autralia where like 80% of the car theft are done with the owner's key? (Too lazy to look for the citation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH19CDA5t_8
Good scotty kilmer video on one such option
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The difference is the US has more people who commit violent crimes.
Why is that?
I think it starts with
- higher rates of bad/no parenting
- schools with no ability to deal with bad behavior
This leads to young adults who think they can get away with anything?
Baltimore is one of the worst places I’ve visited for work. Everyone in the office told us visitors to stay on the main streets in downtown.
Baltimore City, MD - Single-Parent Households with Children as a Percentage of Households with Children (5-year estimate) in Baltimore city, MD was 57.45%
I’m sure there are plenty of good single parents out there, but a lot of these kids aren’t getting a good foundation for life?
I know many teachers, and I frequently hear how behavior at schools is the worst they’ve ever seen. It seems like it’s only getting worse.
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High incarceration rate makes sense when the US has a high crime rate. I don't understand why anyone thinks incarceration rate should not be correlated or would not be correlate to crime rate. Incarcerating criminals isn't the issue, having so many criminals is the issue.
Apparently incarceration and death penalty do not really work as a deterrent in this country. Is it because most of the violent crimes are related to drug addiction?
They serve a function other than deterrence: they remove criminals from the street.
There is a certain political faction that has developed the habit of observing the effects of jail on criminals while ignoring the effect of criminals on the innocent. I think the parent is reacting to the disingenuousness of this position.
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#419Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I should point out to those not from the US that this is how Americans view the US. There is a lot of crime, the government and NGOs are on the side of the criminals etc. It is up voted to the top as well, with agreement in the replies, this is how Americans view the US. What? No. This is not remotely a universal American viewpoint -- especially the government being "on the side of the criminals etc." What would th…
> especially the government being "on the side of the criminals etc." What would that even mean? I imagine that people would gesture at stories like this: https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/suspect... > Police arrested one of two gun-wielding people caught on camera during a double shooting at a crowded holiday celebration this past weekend in south St. Louis, but the 33-year-old woman was released…
Kim Gardner has resigned. Read that as "forced out".
Re: Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts
#420I should point out to those not from the US that this is how Americans view the US. There is a lot of crime, the government and NGOs are on the side of the criminals etc. It is up voted to the top as well, with agreement in the replies, this is how Americans view the US. The US incarcerates more people than China, despite China having more than four times as many people, but the view obviously is the incarceration ra…
Well the alternative is vast, and I do mean VAST, spending on social welfare.
The US is ofcourse rich enough to do it but that would require scrapping every single tax cut since Reagan. Which would inconvenience those in the upper strata of society.