Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

sokpuppet1 t1_ivfpwfa wrote

Reply to comment by user_joined_just_now in Left Unmonitored In His Cell, He Etched His Suicide Note Into a Wall On Rikers Island by hau5keeping

> This shouldn’t be interpreted to mean that protests against violent policing lead to more violence; rather, it means that when police don’t do their jobs, violence often results.

Police aren't doing their jobs so we should... pay them more?

6

tuberosum t1_ivfs4wr wrote

Oh, I see you're not familiar with how policing budgets work:

  1. When crime is low, you increase the budget to keep the crime low.

  2. When crime is rising, you increase the budget to slow and reverse the rise.

  3. When crime is high, you increase the budget to attempt to lower the crime.

  4. And finally, when crime is going down, you increase the budget to make sure it keeps going down.

And you just repeat the cycle as appropriate, year by year.

4

user_joined_just_now t1_ivfs76l wrote

I, the excerpt I quoted, and the comment I replied to didn't say anything about paying them more.

−1