Broken windows policing does work and makes for better neighborhoods but it does create a higher incarceration rate among the very group you are trying to help. Part of the answer would be to just decriminalize pot. I Louisiana there are people serving 10+ years in prison who have never been caught with more than a few ounces of pot. It seems like stopping the truly stupid things would be a good place to start.
New York cop pushes black man's face into pavement and chokes him to death for selling cigerettes
- 04/12/2014 12:03:54 AM
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What does his color have to do with anything?
- 04/12/2014 07:37:08 AM
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A short answer for your long post
- 04/12/2014 04:43:12 PM
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123 blacks shot to death by cops in 2012; 326 whites.
- 05/12/2014 12:40:56 AM
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I hate these stats, so misleading. Only 13% of the US population is black!
- 05/12/2014 02:02:18 PM
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"Proportions, man."
- 05/12/2014 02:28:23 PM
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math is hard
- 05/12/2014 02:45:08 PM
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It doesn't matter why.
- 05/12/2014 03:19:54 PM
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it does to me.
- 05/12/2014 03:52:01 PM
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But that's a completely separate issue than the one that the post is talking about.
- 05/12/2014 05:12:44 PM
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Heh, yes. Because none of us ever adds layers to these posts. Ever. 
- 05/12/2014 07:34:04 PM
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- 05/12/2014 07:34:04 PM
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That is SUCH A BAD SENTENCE.
- 05/12/2014 08:07:18 PM
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I'm not Tom
- 05/12/2014 10:13:43 PM
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Re: "Proportions, man."
- 05/12/2014 03:34:16 PM
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And now you're the one doing exactly what you implied Cannoli was doing.
- 05/12/2014 05:17:25 PM
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Implicit in your posts seems to be the assumption that crime rates and arrest rates are equal
- 06/12/2014 09:26:13 AM
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If you want to keep getting deeper in the weeds.....
- 06/12/2014 07:28:49 PM
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I'm not disputing that; I'm saying there's an issue with the overall rates of arrest. *NM*
- 06/12/2014 08:29:49 PM
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the problem with your example is it the execption not the rule
- 08/12/2014 02:40:14 PM
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I don't have any proof of that either way. I agree that broken window policing plays a role. *NM*
- 09/12/2014 12:25:14 AM
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They question is it it worth the cost?
- 09/12/2014 04:40:02 PM
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L-Dog is right, you are wrong, look at the proportion of crimes committed.....
- 05/12/2014 06:30:29 PM
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he was not choked to death and he was not choked for selling cigerettes
- 04/12/2014 02:28:44 PM
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I mean, "Killed him without intent" is pretty much the definition of manslaughter, isn't it? *NM*
- 04/12/2014 04:44:18 PM
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did you actually watch the video of his death?
- 04/12/2014 06:30:26 PM
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OK watched it all the way. Which one of my conclusions were suppossed to change?
- 04/12/2014 07:39:07 PM
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sorry, i mistook you for a human capable of compassion. my mistake
- 04/12/2014 07:47:35 PM
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Don't worry I don't mistaake you for someone capable of rational thought
- 04/12/2014 10:56:44 PM
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The guy is dead due to preexisting medical conditions and for resisting arrest.
- 04/12/2014 05:11:41 PM
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watch the video below - the choke hold applied is barred from use by NYPD rules
- 04/12/2014 07:43:15 PM
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The multi-racial grand jury concluded it wasn't a choke hold. *NM*
- 04/12/2014 07:47:31 PM
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with secret testimony how do you know for sure? they only chose not to indict
- 04/12/2014 07:52:04 PM
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The grand jury had all the facts, much, much, much more than you could imagine.
- 04/12/2014 08:00:51 PM
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the grand jury had all the facts the DA felt they needed to not indict and much much more
- 04/12/2014 08:10:26 PM
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according to you all they needed was the video and if they didn't see that there is a problem *NM*
- 04/12/2014 10:58:34 PM
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where did you get the heart attack from? wikipedia shows it as a homicide, as it should
- 04/12/2014 06:32:44 PM
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Homicide doesn't equal crime, look up the medical/legal definition of the word. *NM*
- 04/12/2014 07:49:06 PM
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if only it were possible to get to the facts in a court case to prove one way or the other 
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- 04/12/2014 07:53:18 PM
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*NM*
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Even wiki says he died of a heart attack on his way to the hospital
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Wikipedia once told me about President McKinley having magical powers & Terry Goodkind being Batman
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