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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
You could actually make an argument that s&f ultimately increases crime. I've been arrested once by a cop and one by Sear's security. I still get nervous when encountering a cop when pulled over because it is very unusual for me to encounter such an interaction. I'm not saying I'd go criminal w/o that adversion, but I do think it has some propylatic impack on me doing shit.
If you normalize police interaction to be relatively routine, you are saying to young people, might as well steal/rob/etc because the cops are grabbing you anyway.
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Apparently you missed this sentence in my post:
"(This is without getting into things that go well beyond that focus -- like stop-and-frisk, or like the racist way in which policies that are not inherently were implemented)."
I was talking about what was the core of the "broken windows" approach -- aggressive enforcement of laws against low-level, non-violent crimes. Stop-and-frisk really has nothing to do with that -- those who claim it does are either (1) lying as a way to justify using stop-and-frisk or (2) have been misled, by the people who fit into (1).
