We just need enough police to watch the half of society that isn't police and then have the other half of society police the police
It's foolproof
Oh it totally makes sense if you ignore everything about the countries that the author is comparing the US to except 1.) Police exist in those countries 2.) crime also exists in those countries (and no we're not considering any factors that affect this outside of the amount of police there are).
Like seriously the first graph assumes that the amount of officers per 100k people is significant in itself when countries might have law enforcement structures (like a "national police force") that just count more people in law enforcement as "police" even though they direct traffic or write parking tickets full time. Is this guy just not counting US federal agencies as police?
But a state completely lacking in coercive power would be unable to enforce tax law and policy and thus unable to collect revenue. Without revenue, governments could not provide public goods or a social safety net. So this extreme form of civil libertarianism is essentially a kind of political anarchism.
Amazing deductive powers :rat-salute:
Chris Lewis, Adaner Usani---im stealing something out of you house! :baseball-crank:
:doomer: About what I expect from them :epsteingelion:
America has about one-ninth the number of police officers, per homicide, than does the median developed country
America combines low levels of certainty with high levels of severity, especially in its most disadvantaged communities
The United States today has almost three times as many prisoners as police officers
I wonder if all of this has anything to do with the US codifying prison slavery and a for profit prison system that is quick to punish for property crime
Probably not. Imagine doing this much writing and not understanding that all of this is quite deliberate.
There was a time when I believed that people attending and working in schools like MIT, Stanford, and all the Ivy League schools were inherently intelligent in every regard. That belief changed a long time ago when a lot of people I knew that went to these schools were bright in one area and a dumbass in every other.
I have nothing off the top of my head to support this but I feel like the prison situation in the US wouldn't be so bad if state mental hospitals were reformed instead of destroyed.
