[a study paper is shown, with some of the text legible]
STUDY RESULTS
GIVING POOR PEOPLE MONEY REDUCES CRIME MORE THAN GIVING COPS THAT SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY
CONCLUSION
If you want to reduce crime, take care of your community’s primary needs instead of funding cops so much

[an orange character in a suit has stamped a paper labeled MORE POLICE FUNDING BILL, and is grinning]
Heh, you think we don’t know?

https://thebad.website/comic/scientific_policing

  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    3 days ago

    I think you were schooling me a few weeks ago on this subject, and I never responded. If that was you, thank you for your infomative response.

    • freagle@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      Possibly, I often try to bring the history of Liberalism and Conservatism into view when people clearly just mean “good” and “evil” but borrow terms from political philosophy without examining them.