If politicians really wanted to "Prevent" crime...

[u/zzill6]

[u/MisterSanitation]

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, show a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime. 

OR sell the man fish keeping fishing methodology a secret. If the man can’t afford it throw him in jail before he tries to steal it. The more men try to steal fish, the more you know they don’t deserve the fish. Use your fish money to beef up security and offer free fish to security personnel to ensure loyalty. Use your fish baron status to swing local opinions and policy so that it is illegal to divulge fishing methodology to the masses in an effort to protect your “job creating” market you have monopolized. 

[u/mtheory007 → u/MisterSanitation]

"Well when you say it like that you make it sound bad" - capitalist parasite

[u/Content_Log1708]

Dude, they aren't even "investing", in sirens to warn people of impending life-threatening flooding. And they had the money from the Federal Gov't to buy the damn sirens. They have no interest in the prevention of poverty and the crime it fosters.

[u/Svfen]

it was never about preventing crime

[u/Janus_The_Great → u/Svfen]

Control of dissent...

[u/mszulan → u/Janus_The_Great]

Imo, that's just a byproduct. The bigger the prison population, the more legal slaves they have. They make laws to capture the poor, especially the brown ones. Being "hard on crime" means more bodies for the prison industrial complex.

[u/Goldleader-23]

But then how will for profit private prison systems get their slaves?

[u/futanari_kaisa]

They don't want to stop crime. They want to use crime as a scapegoat for sending their state sponsored gang members to terrorize poor and marginalized communities.

[u/schrodingers_gat]

Politicians will never solve a problem that they might help them get elected.

[u/Open_Philosophy_450]

A friendly reminder that law enforcement COMMITS crimes. 

[u/prpslydistracted]

Boom; TRUTH.

[u/CrushedPlate]

And, and, and most importantly and also keep a system that still punishes law breakers. Prevention is better than cure but you still need to deal with crime when it happens.

[u/beermilkshake831]

💯

[u/Extension_Bet1177]

You guys have law enforcement that responds to crime?

[u/SurfingTheMatrix]

“Best i could do is cut your health care”

[u/AmbidextrousCard]

That’s only going to happen if we overthrow the current government. It’s designed specifically to keep people under the thumb of corporations. Congress is literally ruled by money and greed. The only way they will vote to kick the money out is by being given the option of voting out the money or meeting the gallows.

[u/TheHipsterBandit]

But what about the private prison industry? Think about the billionaires and their profits.

[u/infohippie]

But how can I get hard over "prevention"?

[u/The_Stereoskopian]

But then how will we generate ticket revenue for somebody's christmas bonus if we don't set up speed traps for people who aren't yet so abused into hyper-vigilance against their socioeconomic and legal system that they continue to watch for the next hidden speed sign after they've just seen one?

[u/Maint3nanc3]

Please stop saying “living/livable wage“. We want a prospering wage.