Widespread looting in Philadelphia right now
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Anonymous
hmm... I've never heard anything bad about japanese prisons. this article https://englishlawyersjapan.com/what-is-life-like-in-japanese-prison/ says they have a strict schedule, but nothing else bad about them. |
Anonymous
Well yeah, that, plus a bunch of other factors. Japanese people are a super homogenous population that basically restricts inmigration. They don’t like to “upset the Apple cart” in public with their polite ways. Everyone wears a mask on the subway and even did that before Covid, basically out of social obligation and general thoughtfulness. I know I’m generalizing here, but there is this sort of unspoken rule. It has to do with their society operating for the greater good, their corporate culture, saving face culture, etc. Theyre just more reserved and don’t get as fking crazy as we do. They have no guns. Basically they’re so different from America. They don’t have our history of strife and pockets of poverty and all that stuff. But yes also they punish crime and we don’t these days. |
Anonymous
It’s getting to the point where they will demand that. The impetus for this progressive justice reform/restorative justice stuff was because of some instances of police abuse and also because of the disparate rates of incarceration. It’ll went into overdrive post-2020. But obviously, Occam’s Razor has shown that lo and behold, lessening penalties through no bail, allowing speeders to keep licenses, liberal das not prosecuting etc…these novel methods are complete and total failures. I’m sorry it’s sucks, but we need to go back to just taking criminals off the streets. There is no better solution. Trying to fix poverty as the solution is a fools errand. Obviously, we should try to do that. However, just letting people shoplift by basically not going after thieves or seeing liberals city politicians raising the penalty for felony shoplifting to $1000 is not helpful. |
Anonymous
NP. I’m in California and I’m done too. I have registered independent and stopped Democratic Party donations across the country, which I used to do regularly. I’ve had enough. |
Anonymous
It’s probably for profit prisons. People who steal and commit violent crimes (like those men who have raped but the evidence to find them sits in thousands of unprocessed rape kits across the country. It’s weird how rape never gets treated seriously.) should be put away in state funded prisons, not mostly peaceful drug offenders or petty theft (which is still disproportionately prosecuted) sitting in for profit prisons so that a few people might be enriched. |
Anonymous
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Oh and here you go, in case you think Democrats are condoning this:
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/large-crowds-of-juveniles-loot-multiple-stores-in-center-city-police-say/3654732/?amp=1 |
Anonymous
I totally misread your sentence and when I read the article I thought “what in the right wing misreading…” but CORRECT. Democrats are not condoning this. Republicans are sure excited by it though. |
Anonymous
Hmm. It doesn’t seem like your version of reality aligns with what’s actually happening. https://www.findlaw.com/traffic/traffic-tickets/reckless-driving.html Now this doesn’t actually show how speeding/reckless driving are prosecuted and I wasn’t able to find that, but maybe you can. And Texas’s threshold for felony theft is $2500. Seems a little higher than that of “liberal cities,” no? In fact when South Carolina raised their felony shoplifting limit to $2000, their crime continued to drop by 15%, and rates of average value of thefts stayed around $200. From this same site it seems that addressing substance abuse is a massive way to prevent crime. https://blog.agilenceinc.com/the-real-impact-of-rising-felony-shoplifting-thresholds-on-retail It appears that things are not quite like you present them. |
Anonymous
No it's because of a racist and homogenous society with a culture of shame. |
Anonymous
You're a ghoul. You are dehumanizing another person. That is a crime worse than theft. |
Anonymous
What the F are you even blathering about? The man shot by the officer was Hispanic, lol. He also had a knife. There is clear body cam footage too. But let's not let facts get in the way of people rioting to get free TVs and Apple phones! You are a disgusting. |
Anonymous
These weren't protesters and you know it. THAT is disgusting. Feigning ignorance just to score political points. |
Anonymous
| Philadelphia had to close all liquor stores that night to keep employees safe. |
Anonymous
And Japan is about as homogenous as it comes. No infighting between different ethnic groups. |