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don't reform, abolish the police (quokk.au)

submitted 4 months ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/mop@quokk.au

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[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

no, you didn't. you can't prove a counterfactual.

[–] jaselle@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe we're disagreeing on what "deterrent" means. I just mean "an incentive not to commit a crime," not "something that absolutely prevents crime." If you're just trying to prove it's an incentive at all, it's pretty easy as you only need to find one example of somebody who decided against committing a crime for fear of police.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

there's no way to know what they would have decided in a world without police