Crockett blasted for saying the point of law enforcement 'isn't to prevent crime'

[The AntiDonald]

They just can't help it and oddly enough she is correct unless trump is going to release his mind police and start arresting people before they commit a crime. Do these folks even listen to themselves when they start bitching?

I agree with this. And just where was the backlash coming from? Fox News and fElon's X. Not interested in the least.

 

[The AntiDonald]

What is wrong with you?

I'll answer that.

Cool-Aid poisoning.

MAGA on the brain.

 

[reinaert]

The lady spoke true. Also, "crime" is a convention which can be altered by writing words down in an official capacity, and then after most people accepting that this changes the nature of things.

Test the theory. Go buy alcohol. Used to be a crime to do that. Or, drive drunk. Is a crime now. Used to not be.

 

[reinaert]

We are deporting brown people.
And that Aunt Jemima comment shows the OPs true colors.

I think you meant true pallor.

 

[reinaert]

I guess it's a complete waste to have cops on patrol, since they aren't preventing any crimes. They should just sit at the station and wait to be called to investigate.

For the police to address a crime, it has to have occurred. That places it firmly in their past, and having passed, is not and cannot be prevented.

The police enforce order, which thing is not so sure, clear, or certain as some would imagine.

What you seem to desire is policing which proactively works to enforce not order - however that may or may not be currently defined - but rather conformity to power.

We have a phrase for that. [Checks lexicon...] Yeah, it's called police state.

 

[lynnwinslow]

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, sparked backlash on social media Monday after a video surfaced of her saying that local law enforcement’s role is only to solve crime, not prevent it.

A clip from Crockett’s appearance on the "Grounded" podcast — which premiered last Wednesday — went viral as critics seized on her remarks.

"I want to be clear that, like, law enforcement isn't to prevent crime. Law enforcement solves crime, OK? That is what they are supposed to do. They are supposed to solve crimes, not necessarily prevent them from happening per se," she said.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/crockett-blasted-saying-point-law-enforcement-isnt-prevent-crime

I think she was also doing her Aunt Jemima voice when she burped this garbage out. Boy, she sure thinks you lefties are dumb.

Thank you for that excellent illustration of the power of the right wing angertainment algorithm.

 

[southwest88]

If they witness a crime in progress. If they have intelligence a crime is going to be committed. If they arrive at the scene before (further) crimes can be committed.

That's all I can think of. Just standing around, riding a bicycle or horse doesn't prevent much of anything. It might result in a section of town being safer for a select time period. This can also have the effect of making other places in town less safe.

My law dictionary - left over from a previous life - says that crime is defined by the government. So our common use of crime is a kind of shorthand - for the entire judicial process, from the triggering incident, to police/detective work, to apprehension/arrest, to trial, to a finding of guilt or innocence. The accused is presumed to be innocent, & the state has to make its case in court. So police presence is only a first step in government's providing law & order.

 

[ElChupacabra]

Is there a Rosetta Stone course that she took for this?

It's called "code switching", and is something minority groups learn to navigate the worlds they're in. So in my particular case, I learned how to speak properly when I was at school, job, and other settings where slang wasn't appropriate and switch to slang when back in my neighborhood. No Rosetta Stone/Duolingo courses required, it just comes through exposure to different socio-economic groups.

 

[ElChupacabra]

Deterrent isn't stopping or preventing.
Just like a wall at the southern border won't end immigrants coming here.

Fair point, which is why I clarified my initial comment.

 

[OrphanSlug]

So few in this thread get it, but @Hamish Howl is one that does.

We have little statistical evidence that modern law enforcement is about prevention of crime. These days there is little to support the idea of modern law enforcement being about public safety or the protection of the public either.

Far more evidence that the only real point left to the function is preserving order and the initial determination of who is a criminal, even if by some percentage of the time that function is via Constitutionally questionable means and activity.

Over 10 million people are arrested per year in this nation and something north of 40 million citations issued each year, over 1000 people are shot and killed each year by law enforcement, far greater numbers harmed each year, and there is no nation on the planet even close to the US as being the hands down number one incarceration capital of the world looking at this per capita nation to nation.

You geniuses think that is about crime prevention? Modern law enforcement is about a system and the first step is *forcing their determination* of order.

 

[Moderate Right]

Boy, she sure thinks you lefties are dumb.

Well, if that's the case, she may may have a point.

 

[Anthony60]

What is wrong with you?

I don't suffer fools well.

 

[Roadvirus]

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, sparked backlash on social media Monday after a video surfaced of her saying that local law enforcement’s role is only to solve crime, not prevent it.

A clip from Crockett’s appearance on the "Grounded" podcast — which premiered last Wednesday — went viral as critics seized on her remarks.

"I want to be clear that, like, law enforcement isn't to prevent crime. Law enforcement solves crime, OK? That is what they are supposed to do. They are supposed to solve crimes, not necessarily prevent them from happening per se," she said.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/crockett-blasted-saying-point-law-enforcement-isnt-prevent-crime

I think she was also doing her Aunt Jemima voice when she burped this garbage out. Boy, she sure thinks you lefties are dumb.

You were doing great until "Aunt Jemima Voice".

Then your post went right down into the gutter.

 

[dairyair]

OH OUCH, maybe if they rounded up EVERY black person, EVERY brown person, EVERYone with a tattoo, crime would drop to zero?

Perhaps in their minds.
But data after data shows, males to be the most criminal of all. No matter the skin color.