[odie5533]

Flock cameras are assisted suicide for dying neighborhoods. They don't prevent crime, they record crime. Cleaning up vacant lots, planting trees, street lighting, trash removal, and traffic calming like adding planters and crosswalks reduce crime.

[drumttocs8]

You are hitting on the fundamental difference in political views.

Half of this country believes problems are systemic and can be fixed. The other half believes they are a natural consequence of culture, race, and invisible flying creatures that tempt you to do bad things.

[swed420]

> Half of this country believes problems are systemic and can be fixed.

So then why don't they vote for the party that offers systemic solutions? Oh, right, because neither corporate party offers such.

We can't elect systemic solutions when the election and education processes are systemically hijacked by capital interests.

[monero-xmr]

The vast majority of crimes are committed by a small percentage of people. The real issue is prosecutors who refuse to incarcerate repeat offenders. But having video evidence is a powerful tool for a motivated prosecutor to actually take criminals off the streets

[odie5533]

We spend $80 billion a year on incarceration in the US, and have the highest incarceration rate in the world. Your plan increases both. Do you honestly think that if we spend $160 billion or $240 billion a year and double or triple our incarcerated population that we'd solve crime?

Look at places and countries with low crime. They don't have the most Flock cameras, the most prisoners, or the most powerful surveillance evidence because while those may solve a crime, they don't solve crime as a whole.

[culi]

It's wild that you think the problem with the US is too low of an incarceration rate. 25% of all prisoners in the world are in the US

[tencentshill]

You can get video evidence without sending it to a massive, opaque national database of non-suspects.

[FpUser]

>"The real issue is prosecutors who refuse to incarcerate repeat offenders"

Sure. US prosecutors are so lenient that the US is the capital of incarceration

[loeg]

> The real issue is prosecutors who refuse to incarcerate repeat offenders.

Sometimes judges contribute as well.

[thrance]

Any evidence of what you're saying about prosecutors and video surveillance?

[dyauspitr]

I agree. There needs to be a non racist president that just sweeps in and does a El Salvador type cleanup of the streets. I bet the 80%+ of normal black people in crime ridden cities like Baltimore, St. Louis, Memphis, Detroit, New Orleans would be in full support. Let’s be honest, young black gangsters are the main criminal element in these places. Trump can’t do this because he is a piece of shit with no integrity.

[leoh]

What is crime anymore when a felon is the president?

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

What is a felony anymore when the felony is "submitted bad paperwork"?