Scientific policing

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/43335165

[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

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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 1d

sorry, we're gonna have to close down the youth sports centre due to lack of funding

anyway here's the new literal actual tanks the municipality is buying for our police force

strop@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1d (2 replies)

Abolishing money reduces it even more

Tiresia@slrpnk.net · 0 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Abolishing crime reduces it even more

(not being facetious)

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 5h

I really wrote off your comment until that parenthetical lol