[Popman]

I’ve noticed that liberals tend to view crime like weather, something that just happens rather than as a series of decisions and actions by people.

Good observation, but don't you know crime only occurs because of institutional racism, disfranchisement and class discrimination with a nice helping of white oppression

Only wealth redistribution will fix these problems / S

[ApplegateRanch]

but don't you know crime only occurs because of institutional racism, disfranchisement and class discrimination with a nice helping of white oppression

...and so it doesn't take a computer program to know enough to place plainclothesmen in the projects, the "ghettoes" and the "barrios" and their fringes.

It also doesn't take a program to look at a spike in reports in an area, to know that it should be staked out around the days/times that the reports cluster.

Used to be SOP...at least for Joe Friday, et al, long before computers needed less than an icehouse & ton of punch cards, let alone just a lap to sit on.