The Real Criminals

[sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip]

Oh, because of the primary driver of most kinds of crime:

Poverty.

If you want to lower crime, you lower poverty, you put social safety nets in place.

Does this solve crime 100%?

No, but its something like one hundred to ten thousand times more cost effective than not doing that and increasing policing instead.

[phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee]

Also armed bank robbery is VERY heavily punished. In some places armed robbery with a gun (even a fake gun) can be punished by LIFE in prison.

[carrolade@lemmy.world]

For the record, it's specifically CEOs of S&P 500 companies that make an average of ~18 million/yr.

https://aflcio.org/paywatch/highest-paid-ceos

The Standard and Poor's 500 is ~500 of the largest companies in the country that are publicly traded. It does not include the vast majority of CEO positions in the US, just the biggest.

[ayyy@sh.itjust.works]

Because that number was totally pulled out of their butt.

[ayyy@sh.itjust.works]

You're choosing ad hominem

“You aren’t fooling anyone. We know exactly who you are.”

This u?

[criticon@lemmy.ca]

That thief probably stole from a low to medium income family tho

[danielquinn@lemmy.ca]

Who do you think the rich steal from?

[danielquinn@lemmy.ca]

The source looks like https://linktr.ee/massesutd though the dude doesn't appear to have a website, just links to a bunch of gated websites that I can't access without an account.

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

If police and prisons made societies safer the USA would be the safest society on the planet.

[zalgotext@sh.itjust.works]

You and I hear life in prison, a homeless person hears shelter for life

[roidingoldman@lemmy.world]

On a global scale this is probably one of the safest times in human history, and the USA is safer than most.

[obinice@lemmy.world]

Cop: "So anyway I started blastin"

[samus12345@lemmy.world]

Cops serve the ruling class. It's why they're trying so hard to find the CEO killer.

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

You're using relativism to disprove the idea that overpolicing doesn't make us safer? My goodness!

[mkwt@lemmy.world]

Some folks will rob you with a six gun, and some will rob you with a fountain pen.

[raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world]

and the USA is safer than most.

aaaahahahahahaha. ahahahahahahaahaaaahaaaaa... ahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaa fucking hah!

NOT funny.

[satansmaggotycumfart@lemmy.world]

What did you call my mom?

[lennny@lemmy.world]

[theobvioussolution@lemm.ee]

People with jobs serve their paycheck. People with authority let it go to their heads. Cops are the combination of the two.

[zerotwo@lemmy.world]

I felt much safer in Japan more than I ever did in the US.