Only for the insurance company to deny coverage because Mercury was in retrograde during a waxing moon which nullifies the claim. Is outlined in the product disclosure statement that you said you read. On page 34 of 72.
I’d argue it’s more deterrent than ‘stopping’ in most cases. I’d also argue they’re not much more deterring than knowing someone with a gun, some friends, and the ability to use said gun is around. At least for the petty stuff that doesn’t take a jail system to break up.
Cops deterred me from having a productive life, leaving me a wreck with PTSD, after a gang of thugs broke into my home, tied me up, stole my medicine, and threatened to have me be raped as their prisoner for over a decade. And I could not call the cops on them, because they were the cops.
In my experience, cops are extremely fast tho - at least in larger cities. If you live somewhere rural or even in the middle of nowhere, well, they’re going to need some time to be there. It’s not like they can just materialize at a crime scene.
I’d also argue they’re not much more deterring than knowing someone with a gun, some friends, and the ability to use said gun is around
I imagined that everywhere cops mostly react to crimes already committed. Less frequently but still frequently they prevent crimes by their presence. Much less frequently would they have the opportunity to stop a crime in progress.
Also worth remembering that stories like that go nationwide because they’re unusual. If cops did that on any sort of routine basis it wouldn’t be newsworthy.
Does the bottom left one actually do that though?
Should say something more like, “I harass minorities and protect corporate interests.”
“I wield a monopoly on violence to uphold the status quo.”
Fine
“I provide a reference number so you can make an insurance claim”
Only for the insurance company to deny coverage because Mercury was in retrograde during a waxing moon which nullifies the claim. Is outlined in the product disclosure statement that you said you read. On page 34 of 72.
They don’t even fucking do that these days.
Minorities cant commit crimes if they are dead/jailed so yes. in a way
In civilized countries, yes.
I’d argue it’s more deterrent than ‘stopping’ in most cases. I’d also argue they’re not much more deterring than knowing someone with a gun, some friends, and the ability to use said gun is around. At least for the petty stuff that doesn’t take a jail system to break up.
Cops deterred me from having a productive life, leaving me a wreck with PTSD, after a gang of thugs broke into my home, tied me up, stole my medicine, and threatened to have me be raped as their prisoner for over a decade. And I could not call the cops on them, because they were the cops.
In my experience, cops are extremely fast tho - at least in larger cities. If you live somewhere rural or even in the middle of nowhere, well, they’re going to need some time to be there. It’s not like they can just materialize at a crime scene.
Are you saying you want people to own guns?
People already own guns (in the US anyways). They just don’t usually have the free pass to use it like cops have.
I imagined that everywhere cops mostly react to crimes already committed. Less frequently but still frequently they prevent crimes by their presence. Much less frequently would they have the opportunity to stop a crime in progress.
Well yes, they can’t materialize at a crime scene - that’s kinda obvious.
That would be pretty spooky.
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Also worth remembering that stories like that go nationwide because they’re unusual. If cops did that on any sort of routine basis it wouldn’t be newsworthy.
There’s one, just one, in all of The Laughing Auditor’s vids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEdjDKh6h2Y
Read between the lines
Absolutely. Just because shitty cops make the news doesn’t mean that no cop stops crime ever.