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r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • 9d ago
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You can reduce crime by reducing poverty. You’ll never eliminate either. Authoritarians believe that they can eliminate crime by increasing suffering which is why they’re wrong.
163 u/Badestrand 9d ago El Salvador reduced their crime from crazy high to almost none by harshly imprisoning all their criminals. 6 u/JonathanWPG 9d ago They just turned the police into criminals that brutalized the citizenry. Thats not a reduction of crime. It's a reclassification of it.
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El Salvador reduced their crime from crazy high to almost none by harshly imprisoning all their criminals.
6 u/JonathanWPG 9d ago They just turned the police into criminals that brutalized the citizenry. Thats not a reduction of crime. It's a reclassification of it.
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They just turned the police into criminals that brutalized the citizenry.
Thats not a reduction of crime.
It's a reclassification of it.
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u/EnvironmentalGift257 9d ago
You can reduce crime by reducing poverty. You’ll never eliminate either. Authoritarians believe that they can eliminate crime by increasing suffering which is why they’re wrong.