My quality of life is affected by crime. Sure no one is going to kill me. But why should we accept crime? It's easy to solve. Arrest people and keep them locked up, especially for anti-social crimes. Just yesterday, Noemi Guzman, took a large kitchen knife from a Walmart, kidnapped a 3yo and nearly stabbed him. In 2024, she was involved in another violent incident (including attacking her father and breaking into a church) and was found not responsible by reason of insanity. So too insane to throw in jail so we let her out in the street?

My answer is to arrest and prosecute the people that are destroying polite society. I don't get your point in China. I could care less.

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culi 2 days ago | parent [-]

Noemi Guzman does not have nearly the impact on your life that your neighbor driving a car with the catalytic converter removed or the CEO of a company that has a facility near you that made the decision to cut corners on holding tanks for their trichloroethylene

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bko 2 days ago | parent [-]

Things that affect my life:

My children going to a park with regular drug users with convenient needle drop (remove needle drops and arrest the handful of drug users that hang around children's parks with dangerous drugs on them)

Package thefts (sting operation to arrest the handful of people organizing these thefts)

Crazy people on subway (end "showtime" and people sleeping on the train)

People driving dangerously (cameras)

Smell of weed everywhere (don't allow smoking weed in public)

But I guess the few random fully avoidable deaths is acceptable because its not that often? Kind of like a child sacrifice we have to endure because its somehow compassionate to let crazy people roam the streets and assault people randomly?

None of this involves corporate CEOs and is relatively simple to solve.

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culi 2 days ago | parent [-]

If we want to reduce avoidable deaths, you can get a lot more bang for your buck investing in almost ANYTHING other than this extremely rare event. We've already invested way too much of it. And you're paying for it with MY taxes

You are overindexing on it because you watch too much TV.

Your kids would be a lot safer and better off if we moved some of our money away from surveillance and put it into cleaning up superfund sites on the NPL

https://epa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=...

Look at this map and count how many superfund sites are within a 10 mile radius of you

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bko a day ago | parent [-]

There's no buck here. You just enforce the law and prosecute. They're already in the system being arrested for the umpteenth time. Just leave them in prison, society would improve considerably.

Cops already exist, they are just told they can't enforce the law.

	▲	culi a day ago \| parent [-]
		you will not be better off in a police state. And you do not get to achieve your fantasy on everyone else's dime