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Sounds a bit like you’re projecting. Property crime gets a shrug or a stern lecture on locking your doors. Whatever security measure you took wasn’t enough or the right one.

Law enforcement is note taking, victim blaming, homeless harassment, and ticketing. All of which could be done cheaper and without maintaining a dangerous armed militia.

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> Property crime gets a shrug or a stern lecture on locking your doors.

And that's the fucking problem. People won't be resorting to technology if the police would actually do their jobs.

I don’t argue with people who think more policing will fix poverty. I just see them as having gotten roughed up by different thugs.

Ultimately what we’ve got isn’t working and the underlying problems are getting worse.

Eventually it’ll fail enough people we’ll pass a tipping point. Might as well start brainstorming

Nobody thinks more policing will fix poverty. What it might partially fix is people trying to rob me.

Police are hammer. I'm just asking you to reconsider funding bigger and bigger hammers when we need some other tools.

>Police are hammer. I'm just asking you to reconsider funding bigger and bigger hammers when we need some other tools.

I'm all for increasing spending on other tools but sometimes you still need the hammer. Ever try to hammer a something when you don't have a hammer?

Yeah, its called a rock. I have one. You should too. They're legal.

What am I projecting, exactly? This seems more like you're personally insulted, rather than objectively and critically thinking my comment through.

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