Qasim Rashid, Esq.A quick reminder that law enforcement *responds* to crime, but a living wage, food and water security, accessible healthcare, and public education *prevent* crime.
If you want safer communities, invest in people, not punishments.
Ketakater@QasimRashid But how? There is a big interest in keeping crime rates high in order to fill prisons for cheap labor.
So, big money is involved, making sure investments go into "law enforcement", not into improving people's standard living
Shaman@Ketakater @QasimRashid keeping crime rates high is also needed for 'conservatives' to win elections. At least in the US #ToughOnCrime is one of the pillars #RightWingNutJobs regularly stand on to win elections. Against all evidence to the contrary #GOP still seems to succeed with this fairytale that more inhumane laws and militarized law enforcement will make the righteous citizens safer ...
James Baillie@Ketakater @QasimRashid Working on attacking/trying to regulate the use of prison labour ought to be a viable political strategy: even people who don't have progressive views on crime can often be brought to agree that cheap prison labour shouldn't be allowed to undercut regular workers, and that's a pretty effective wedge to drive into the logic of mass incarceration if progressives/ballot initiative movements can bring it to bear effectively.