• MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Which of course has a certain degree of success baked in, because if you focus policing in a particular place you will find crimes there because a) crimes happen everywhere and b) cops can just juke the stats / make shit up / make arrests without cause.

    • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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      exactly. it’s amazing to me that these nerds can talk themselves into creating an ouroboros like this because they don’t actually bother to understand how any of this shit works, but i guess whatever justifies their salary…

      • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.net
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        It’s the result of other scientists pretending sociology isn’t a science. Sociology makes shit like this worthless, so instead of just working together with sociologists, they ignore them.