This has always been a question of mine - how would a communist state deal with homicides, robbery, thefts, burglaries, and other nuisance crime

  • DrunkUncle [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    End poverty.

    Institute anger management, conflict resolution, and family/child-rearing educational courses in all high schools and available for free for all adults.

    Give everyone the same access to the legal system that rich people currently have access to today for conflict resolution of people’s disputes.

    This will solve about 90% of it.

    See: http://aworldwithoutpolice.org/study-guide/ for more good reading

    • XKEYSCORE [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      anger management is huge

      most people don't know that a large portion of the homicides that happen in America are due to personal disputes; people pull guns so they don't look like they lost an argument.

      • DrunkUncle [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        And most disputes center around economic survival in the face of capitalist enforced poverty. End poverty->end crime.

        Most of the rest are because there are no accessible dispute resolution services for anyone but those few people rich enough to afford lawyers and lawsuits to settle disputes.

        And both would be reduced if there were any modicum of an attempt to address the rampant toxic masculinity that is destroying our society currently.

      • JuneFall [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        And the economic threats and exclusion that goes on.

        When I was very stressed cause I was very close to being without a home and my bosses wouldn't pay my insurance and also held back half a year of pay I was very agitated. That was made worse by having become sick and still having to fight a multi front battle.

        Having had a secure alternative safe living situation which safe access to food and healthcare, as well as spaces and rooms to have social integration I wouldn't have had much of the trouble I got now. Having had social support when I was sick to care for some reproductive for for the two month would've made a change for the next two years, too, as it took so long to claw myself back to a safe and secure living situation.

        If you have those things and structures in which you get cherished and even are bettering our world there is little crime to be done, except petty or habitual crime. With petty crime I mean stuff like eating more helpings of the cake than would be your share.