Which is funny, given that crime is *down* in most places. Maybe more should have been done to combat the fearmongering?
MyOtherCarIsAHippo on
Has anyone considered looking at the root causes of crime? Maybe we could invest more into supporting kids and parents mental health and stop corporations from bleeding us dry? No? Okie dokie
Jeffgoldbum on
Isn’t it strange people are willing to spend $120,000 a year to imprison a person after they commit a crime
but then act like we can’t financially help people to prevent them from getting to that spot in the first place.
The Idea of crime prevention just doesn’t exist, Its almost all purely reactionary at the moment.
We currently wait until the crimes are committed before acting, we refuse to fund and promote a better country where people aren’t homeless where people don’t have options and then we do everything we seemingly can to drive away those who do seek an education of their own initiative by saddling them with a great deal of debt which doesn’t line up to our economic situation or general affordability leading to a lot of people leaving the country to pay for their education debt
People who have a steady income, who have a house tend to not be the ones going around stealing stuff, Its the people who have nothing who often steal the most its not a complicated thing, its not belittling, its not saying poor people are criminals, But most criminals are poor people,
If you want to deal with crime, deal with the extreme poverty we have in our country today
Rural crime is Bad in Saskatchewan because the poverty rate for youths is very high, poverty is not a life and its not something you can force people to accept, You just create people resentful of your system willing to take what they want when you treat poverty like a inevitable thing
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Which is funny, given that crime is *down* in most places. Maybe more should have been done to combat the fearmongering?
Has anyone considered looking at the root causes of crime? Maybe we could invest more into supporting kids and parents mental health and stop corporations from bleeding us dry? No? Okie dokie
Isn’t it strange people are willing to spend $120,000 a year to imprison a person after they commit a crime
but then act like we can’t financially help people to prevent them from getting to that spot in the first place.
The Idea of crime prevention just doesn’t exist, Its almost all purely reactionary at the moment.
We currently wait until the crimes are committed before acting, we refuse to fund and promote a better country where people aren’t homeless where people don’t have options and then we do everything we seemingly can to drive away those who do seek an education of their own initiative by saddling them with a great deal of debt which doesn’t line up to our economic situation or general affordability leading to a lot of people leaving the country to pay for their education debt
People who have a steady income, who have a house tend to not be the ones going around stealing stuff, Its the people who have nothing who often steal the most its not a complicated thing, its not belittling, its not saying poor people are criminals, But most criminals are poor people,
If you want to deal with crime, deal with the extreme poverty we have in our country today
Rural crime is Bad in Saskatchewan because the poverty rate for youths is very high, poverty is not a life and its not something you can force people to accept, You just create people resentful of your system willing to take what they want when you treat poverty like a inevitable thing