> at least a good beating
In what cities does any of this earn you a good beating?
In what cities does any of this earn you a good beating?
For extremely serious crimes, not his list of public indecency. For instance:
* Under the Environmental Public Health Act, it is an offence to urinate or defecate "in or upon any street, arcade, vacant land, river, canal, ditch, drain or watercourse or in any place to which the public has access except in any sanitary convenience provided for such purpose." The penalty is a fine of up to $1,000 for a first offence, and up to $2,000 and $5,000 for the second and third offence respectively. [1] [2]
[1] https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/totally-unacceptable-man-p...
[2] https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/nea-issues-warning-wom...
We know that the rich are allowed to do what they want. I’m more interested in the people likely to actually do it.
The GP was talking about an informal punishment though, not canning.
I've been wondering what cops are using these days since phonebooks aren't a thing any more.
Guess a lot of people are 'falling down stairs' instead (outside SF).
I would prefer that criminals were not beaten and that we find a better solution. I don’t think we have to choose between police brutality and crime.
Without a police force dense societies usually can not function.
Defund the police does have a certain legitimate point in the US, where police are basically the catch all for dealing with any kind of social problem. In fact I think if it were phrased differently, most cops would rather there be another type of department that responded to sticky social situations.
But yes, the fundamental issue is really a lack of law and order for law enforcement itself, which decreases the public trust and increases adversarialism. The average person seeing a cop and reflexively thinking how to avoid getting their attention and avoid getting hassled for some bullshit is an indicator of a deep set problem. The cancer was fueled by drug criminalization and other crushing nanny statism (eg the draconian ways that traffic laws are enforced), but it would take a lot more than simply rolling those back to regain the public trust.