mctrials23 t1_iu8cvge wrote on October 29, 2022 at 10:25 AM

Reply to comment by uclm in UK police fail to meet 'legal and ethical standards' in use of facial recognition by Gari_305

That doesn’t help your policing right now though. You need to fix the root cause but you cannot just ignore the current reality because there is a reason for it.

doctorwhy88 t1_iu8uwf2 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 1:40 PM

It does, because aggressive policing without addressing the other social problems reinforces those problems.

And, how many of those “crimes” are nonviolent drug crimes? As a follow-up, does locking someone up for those crimes and giving them a criminal record increase or decrease their likelihood to reoffend?

mctrials23 t1_iu8w0ah wrote on October 29, 2022 at 1:50 PM

Well this is the issue. It’s not that simple. Being soft on drug sellers and users makes a community worse. Ignoring crime because it’s committed by a certain group doesn’t remove that crime. A multi faceted approach is needed but you can’t ignore soft crime as that brings a whole community down and is linked to harder crimes.

doctorwhy88 t1_iu9nn4n wrote on October 29, 2022 at 5:14 PM

So instead, we’ll increase crime through policing efforts.