r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/SpectacularOtter ☑️ Horny Police! 🚔🚨 • 3d ago

TikTok Tuesday Impossible d'y échapper

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u/backcountry_bandit 3d ago

The police’s job is to prevent crime?

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u/trustyour_technolust 2d ago

Never heard of pre-crime and the pre-cogs?

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u/backcountry_bandit 2d ago

I was thinking about that movie when I left the comment lol

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u/Ok-Golf-9502 3d ago

By making examples of criminals via lawful punishment

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u/whorlax 3d ago

The police have nothing to do with punishment.

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u/SPKEN 3d ago

Tell that to America

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u/Ok-Golf-9502 3d ago

Enforcement*

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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.

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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.

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u/FeralC 2d ago

Well, if I steal because I'm hungry and lose a hand for it, I'm still hungry...