hmmm i wonder about this hard to disentangle these things empiricallyhttps://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1447602437938876417 …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I don't think it's true. People used to go to jail for shoplifting, and now they don't; ergo, now people just kinda walk in with a big bag and leave with whatever they want.
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Replying to @Midnight_Blaze_
well right but there's some issue of the direction of causality
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I guess I could believe that the alternative is that enough people are breaking the law that we just stopped enforcing it?
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Replying to @Midnight_Blaze_
basically there's a point where enough people are breaking a law that enforcement becomes very difficult, the odds of you specifically getting arrested drop with the number of simultaneous lawbreakers like if you start breaking windows alone you're going to jail. but in a mob?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @Midnight_Blaze_
it's less "enforcement became difficult" and more that the demographics of enforcement started having a particular racial character and people didn't like what that implied
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> it's less "enforcement became difficult" and more that the demographics of enforcement started having a particular racial character and people didn't like what that implied




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