The Real Criminals

[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.

[roidingoldman@lemmy.world]

One lie I've heard over and over in my life is how unsafe everything is. Small town people think the cities are unsafe. City people think the small towns are unsafe. They're not. They're actually fine. It's a scare tactic. The media over reports crime. Look at any crime statistics and you'll see, yes, some recent spikes. As always. But if you're watching the news you'd think we've been in a perpetual crime spike since the 1960's or so. It's a safer world right now than it was 50 and 100 years ago.

The USA is, in fact (even if it upsets you) one of the safest societies in the history of the world. Only behind other modern 1st world nations.

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

In that case we shouldn't have ANY incidents of police officers murdering people, planting evidence, covering up internal crime or taking bribes.

Saying, "it's good enough" in response to "overpolicing doesn't make us safer" suggests that the overpolicing is ok, and it's not. So thanks for your input, but I'm upholding my view.

[wes4humanity@lemm.ee]

The US is ranked 132 out of 163 for safety worldwide. I'd say that actually makes the US one of the least safe countries on earth.

Is it safer than living in a Roman frontier town during the Hun invasion? Probably... but the point is, clearly having the most militarized police and highest prison population doesn't make things safer.

[phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee]

Life in prison is hell. The food is positively horrific (I've heard of fecal matter and even insects being in some of their food) and you still need to work every day like a (literal in this case) slave.

[roidingoldman@lemmy.world]

I'm not saying it's "good enough," I'm saying that it has improved. It will hopefully continue to improve. It's far from perfect. I have no disagreements there. My problem was with this statement:

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

Well it is one of the safest societies on the planet. And it continues to get safer.

This is not the argument against police you think it is.