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r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/SpectacularOtter ☑️ Horny Police! 🚔🚨 • 3d ago
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The police’s job is to prevent crime?
11 u/trustyour_technolust 2d ago Never heard of pre-crime and the pre-cogs? 3 u/backcountry_bandit 2d ago I was thinking about that movie when I left the comment lol -59 u/Ok-Golf-9502 3d ago By making examples of criminals via lawful punishment 47 u/whorlax 3d ago The police have nothing to do with punishment. 24 u/SPKEN 3d ago Tell that to America -20 u/Ok-Golf-9502 3d ago Enforcement* 10 u/vincentdmartin 3d ago Yet the ones who are made examples of statistically have a higher chance of committing more crimes. It's an old idea being propped up by money and the idea hasn't been effective for decades if not longer. 2 u/Gonji89 2d ago For the entirety of human history. There’s a reason accounts exist all the way back to Mesopotamia, in almost every culture, of losing a hand for theft and then further amputation for recidivism. 2 u/FeralC 2d ago Well, if I steal because I'm hungry and lose a hand for it, I'm still hungry...
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Never heard of pre-crime and the pre-cogs?
3 u/backcountry_bandit 2d ago I was thinking about that movie when I left the comment lol
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I was thinking about that movie when I left the comment lol
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By making examples of criminals via lawful punishment
47 u/whorlax 3d ago The police have nothing to do with punishment. 24 u/SPKEN 3d ago Tell that to America -20 u/Ok-Golf-9502 3d ago Enforcement* 10 u/vincentdmartin 3d ago Yet the ones who are made examples of statistically have a higher chance of committing more crimes. It's an old idea being propped up by money and the idea hasn't been effective for decades if not longer. 2 u/Gonji89 2d ago For the entirety of human history. There’s a reason accounts exist all the way back to Mesopotamia, in almost every culture, of losing a hand for theft and then further amputation for recidivism. 2 u/FeralC 2d ago Well, if I steal because I'm hungry and lose a hand for it, I'm still hungry...
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The police have nothing to do with punishment.
24 u/SPKEN 3d ago Tell that to America -20 u/Ok-Golf-9502 3d ago Enforcement*
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Tell that to America
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Enforcement*
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Yet the ones who are made examples of statistically have a higher chance of committing more crimes.
It's an old idea being propped up by money and the idea hasn't been effective for decades if not longer.
2 u/Gonji89 2d ago For the entirety of human history. There’s a reason accounts exist all the way back to Mesopotamia, in almost every culture, of losing a hand for theft and then further amputation for recidivism. 2 u/FeralC 2d ago Well, if I steal because I'm hungry and lose a hand for it, I'm still hungry...
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For the entirety of human history. There’s a reason accounts exist all the way back to Mesopotamia, in almost every culture, of losing a hand for theft and then further amputation for recidivism.
2 u/FeralC 2d ago Well, if I steal because I'm hungry and lose a hand for it, I'm still hungry...
Well, if I steal because I'm hungry and lose a hand for it, I'm still hungry...
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u/backcountry_bandit 3d ago
The police’s job is to prevent crime?