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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When students study crime alongside the people who fight it, what do you think each side learns that surprises them most?”
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I am a husband, father, and grandfather. I teach Criminology and Criminal Justice, and American National Politics at University, my second career. I am retired after almost three and a half decades in government.... - onOne of the often-quoted fundamentalist Christian diatribes is that the United States needs Christianity in order to improve the moral fiber of the country. Presumably if more of the country were Christian, there would be less crime and other social ills.by
This is interesting, as you seem to be making so odd correlations… we could just as easily attribute this to economics and not religion. Also if I recall my crime stats the worst area for crime are democrat controlled high black population areas..... One of the often-quoted fundamentalist Christian diatribes is that the United States needs Christianity in order to improve the moral fiber of the country. Presumably if more of the country were Christian, there would be less crime and other social ills.... This, along with the Brian Thompson murder, feels like an alarming trend. But I don't actually know the data: is there more political violence now than before? Is there more from the left?... - pietro...
I can't speak for the author, but in my mind if we look at the police as a gang, I just haven't heard of a large scale society that works without the threat of violence. But maybe that wasn't at all what the original author was thinking about.... AI, cameras, drones, and an attempt at a construct-aware take on “crime”
Companies like Flock claim their traffic cameras, drones, and AI can reduce crime to nothing. There are Minority Report concerns but they try to say they that 10% of reported crime is solved by Flock....