"Constant surveillance seems to have had little effect on Britain’s sky-high crime.
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The problem with the criminal law in Britain today is that it neither incapacitates criminals nor deters those inclined, for whatever reason, to break the law.
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In fact, the surveillance may even make matters worse, for if people run no additional risks in breaking the law while under surveillance, they may conclude that they have absolutely nothing to fear from the law. What is certain is that we begin to feel Big Brother watching us; thus arises a strange alliance between leniency and authoritarianism."
http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-10-16td.html
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Leniency to evil coupled with authoritarianism- in brief summary, that is the Left.
Cameras, Crooks, and Deterrence
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- Cameras, Crooks, and Deterrence
- "Leniency to evil coupled with authoritarianism.....that is the Left"
- Numbers don't add up...
- And yet unconstitutional surveillance doesn't bother the neo-cons.
- re: Cameras, Crooks, and Deterrence
- Because American conservatives are so concerned about our right to privacy...
- Should be on Flame (n/t)
- "Leniency to evil coupled with authoritarianism- in brief summary, that is the Left."
- Oddly, I don't see it that way...
- re: "Leniency to evil coupled with authoritarianism- in brief summary, that is the Left."
- No big deal, Geoff ambushed me once on the Space board.