angelgonzales

I understand your point - prisons want to exploit prisoners and their families for profit by brokering imports into their facilities. I also think that many people who have bleeding hearts for these criminals and their families haven’t been direct victims of crimes themselves. Often these criminals are terrible people who act horrifically and with malice but act so sorry for themselves when they’re caught and on trial. Their families usually only care for the criminal they’re related to and never to the victims no matter that the criminal did. I don’t see families of criminals giving money to the victim of the criminal, do you? Sometimes the families and cultural influence are factors that attribute to a criminal’s motivation to commit a crime. Trust me, I’ve been there! Finding the balance of incentives not to commit crime is difficult because crimes are often committed by violent people who do not respond strongly to logical or legal reasoning but respond somewhat to force and fear. The key, I think, is providing people with resources and care far before they’re at the age where they usually commit crimes. There’s also something to consider about the western and eastern views of individualism. An eastern view might consider this prisoner as a component of their family or their community.

Packaging is like insurance, because it’s usually not needed but it’s required to be used 100% in order to mitigate infrequent events like dropping a package. Most packaging is close to optimized for cost and protection of the contents relative to their value, think Pringles cans. An iPhone or MacBook is a $1000-3000 computer, $10-100 in packaging is normal for that sort of product. If I buy a heavy machine from Europe it’s going to cost 10% of that machine just to crate it and another 10-15% for shipping oversea. I don’t complain about that cost because I know it keeps my investment intact during transit or storage.

I moved here in early 2021 for work and my girlfriend moved up with me as well. Her car was stolen twice and broken into once, twice from controlled access parking. Her bike was stolen as well.

My car, in the same month, was rear ended by an uninsured driver with a history of DUIs and a family history of crime and bankruptcy. When my car was rear-ended the trunk popped open and all of the contents were stolen by a 3rd party. In all of these times, calls to 911 failed often and it often took hours to get connected to an operator. Even when I found my girlfriend’s car in a high-crime, high-transient part of the city the police would not assist, nor provide a police report for hours. When my car was totaled by an uninsured driver police did not provide a police report, and when I made a FOIA request none was on record.

The private security here, particularly on/near Hayden Island and around N/SE. Portland are completely justified when they have to use force or project force against shoplifters, squatters and other criminals because it results in business closures which depresses the local economy. Unfortunately Measure 114 was heavily funded by out-of-state billionaires who want to disarm citizens, this measure increases police power, but is fortunately currently blocked due to its unconstitutionality.

The wilderness is beautiful here, unfortunately many people turn a blind eye to the violence and crime because it’s a direct result of their own voting and demonstration history. I’ve found that police dispatchers here don’t ask much info about crimes in progress or physical details of criminals. I’m not sure if it’s because they don’t want to add to federal or state records or because they understand that police can’t/won’t actually arrive on the scene. This being said, I’ve taken reasonable and logical precautions to safeguard myself and my property against crime that any free-thinking patriot would take because I don’t want to end up like a person I talked to - they were kidnapped at gunpoint and taken from ATM to ATM withdrawing money recently, his passport and all forms of ID were taken, marooning him here. Every day in this city I see so many cars with windows bashed in and car glass shards on the floor, even in trendy neighborhoods there’s a new puddle of glass shards every morning right off the main streets.

The tents on sidewalks keep people in wheelchairs from using them, forcing them onto city roads where drivers are not anyways lucid. Needles, trash and human waste is a biological hazard that collects even on notable streets like 23rd and particularly on Burnside.

An unusual contradiction is that many people here who call themselves progressive ignore victim’s voices - victims of property time, assault, kidnapping and robbery. I do see that normal citizens here project a sense that they care for others but not when those others are victims of crimes.

Enclosed, closed-off parking, living in controlled-access housing, living on upper floors away from the sounds of paramedic sirens and insane screaming is something I’d recommend. I do also recommend getting a CHL in your county.

The federal government distributes funds to the states which in turn distribute money to nonprofits to give to victims of crime, 10% to my knowledge is supposed to go to victims of violent crime and sexual abuse, with 90% free to go to any victims of violent crime. I don’t see any organizations in Multnomah County that provide funds to people like my girlfriend and I who are victims of nonviolent property crimes, which I find curious because so many occur here.

That’s why I always advocate for formal training and certification when it comes to using complex software. Sitting down for eight hours or 40 hours in a classroom setting allows users to familiarize themselves or master the other 90% of functions they aren’t normally aware of or haven’t used. There is software that needs to be complex because some job functions are complex, the big focus on collaboration in the workplace now results in people with fundamentally different job functions using the same piece of software which clutters up user interfaces as well.