Homeless people cost tax payers between 30-50 thousand dollars a year. Housing the homeless is likely fiscally conservative.
This means the incentive structure in our society is wrong. People who lack the creativity to solve novel problems resort to psychopathy to to be productive in the economy. Military industrial complex, private prisons, judge judy.
Cops are mainly to suppress anybody who doesn’t go along with the will of the powerful.
They don’t exist to reduce harm to the many, they exist to protect the assets of the Owner class, which is why in Law property “crime” is usually more severely punished than anything but murder and why cops are vastly more speedy at investigating and prosecuting “crimes” committed against the Owner class or their Assets than they are when it’s the riff-raff that suffers.
They’re minions to a handful of people, not servants of the public.
Sane people do stuff for a reason. Remove the reason, remove the action they would take.
Like for example remove pay and any sane person will stop working.
Basic needs, I.E food, water, shelter, and healthcare should be seen as rights, but past that is wants, and people will work for what they want.
In our current system we provide all of those needs, and fund it with by taxes for the people in prison, but not the innocent and poor.
Show me the science Jerry!
SHOW ME THE SCIENCE!!
As a person whose home was recently burgled: I spoke with 4 different police officers/detectives in the investigation. I agree that what we need is a less desperate society, not more policing.
Let me guess… They’re investigating but have no interest in doing actual police work once the case is filed.
Bad cop, no doughnut.
Why not both? Other people’s desperation is not an excuse to rob you.
Because we live in a universe of finite resources. So maybe be efficient, and do the things that work best first. When we have a budget surplus we can talk about where to spend that.
More policing creates more criminals, which increases net desperation since society punishes people with a criminal history.
It’s more effective on a finite budget. Just like focusing on a rehabilitation is better than focusing on punishment in prisons. The Norwegian method spends way more per person but the ones that go through the system are much less likely to come back. This means that per person Norway spends way less than a lot of other countries.
Norway spends 3x more per prisoner than the US but spend half as much on prisons.
Related: it’s been long known that giving unemployed people money is good for the economy.
“I’m a supporting member of society because I work 40h/week, and you aren’t” simply isn’t true.
I don’t have the scientific paper to support this but I’ve known it since the 1990s.
Economists know it too. It doesn’t even have anything to do with “socialism”.
AgE oF sCIence aND prOgREss
A 32-hour, 4-day work week can be more productive than a traditional 40-hour, 5-day schedule, particularly for roles that require cognitive engagement beyond routine production line tasks.
There are studies that prove this. It also reduces sick days. Does anyone care? No, let’s ignore science because it feels like it’s more productive to force productivity.
People like simple solutions more than listening to science.
More cops, less crime.
More work, more productivity.
More billionaires, better economy.
Yeah one of the biggest learnings for me over my career is that people are hard-wired for stories. It doesn’t matter how good an engineer/scientist you are, how well explained or robust the logic/study is, etc. People only respond to how things make them feel - we are emotional beings with the ability to rationalize, not the other way around.
Love the vibe in this comment section 🤙🏻
The purpose of cops is not to reduce crime.
Well, part of their purpose is to reduce crime, but only crime against very rich people.
And their stuff. Can’t let anything happen to their stuff
If poors stop doing crime and cops can’t arrest the poors then who will give profit prisons free labor??
The prisons are not gonna fill themselves
Trump and immigrants.
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Source?
This just confirms my preexisting biases a little too much.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0038012125000229 maybe something like this for the homelessness part
Link is down 😞
Holly
Well she did do the sciency thing
No no no, that’s socialism! Which people have learned is bad… Because, empathy is toxic!
its not about the wellbeing of our society, its about being in control. by force
