Thread: Crime

I wonder, how many people think criminals should have a fair shot at not getting caught.

That is, do we think the police should be allowed to walk around in plain clothes, drive unmarked cars, keep our fingerprints and DNA on record etc etc, just in case?

I dunno, it just does not seem quite right too me. No doubt it puts a lot of people behind bars, but to what end?

It is almost as if the people are policing them selves less because the police are everywhere.

In the end most criminals are stupid and thats how they get caught. All this other stuff you speak of makes it easier for the police but even before most of it existed criminals were still getting caught for the same reasons they have always been caught.

being a cop is the most thankless job that i can think of, nobody likes them, they make you shiver when you see them ,BUT when you need them they look 10 feet tall and bulet proff i like having them around.

I'm not a fan of the unmarked cars. Anymore, the entire purpose of the police is to catch speeders and fine them exorbitant amounts of money. A scenario I've seen time and again is some police car/bike parked in the shadows with a laser gun, yet a block or less away there are people blowing stop lights or stop signs. I understand speed kills, but so does someone blowing a stop sign like it's not even there. I wish policing was less a business being kept alive by speeders and more of a public service keeping us safe from real dangers.

If you think about it they have a 50/50 shot at crime every time they choose to commit one.They can either choose to commit a crime or they can choose not to.Seems to me those are pretty fair odds.

Originally Posted by spanx

If you think about it they have a 50/50 shot at crime every time they choose to commit one.They can either choose to commit a crime or they can choose not to.Seems to me those are pretty fair odds.

Not really. To many criminals it's all about the chase, the thrill, the chance you won't get caught. many of these guys are addicted to a life of crime. They can no more change than a hardcore drug addict can quit.

Thats why Prisons are often times called correctional facilities right?

I'm not a fan of increasing police powers, if thats what you're asking, or the governments right to snoop on peoples private affairs. It seems like every time some extraordinary and unusual crime is committed, the gov't uses that as an excuse to take away more rights and freedoms, and the people lap it up. I dread what will happen if someone actually does should "Fire!" in a movie theater some day, we'll have special reports on the news asking things like "Is there such a thing as too much freedom of speech?", and politicians trying to push bills through "to stop this sort of thing from ever happening again"

I've never known the govt to give back a freedom once its been taken, also. For example, despite the fact that it would be impossible to hijack a plane like they were hijacked in 2001, we still have to go through those moronic checkpoints in airports (staffed by the even more moronic TSA agents), and they are even testing out security scanners that let you see through people clothes. Seems to me its not about keeping you safe, its about keeping you scared and well behaved.

I think some laws need to be changed.

I don't know where you guys live but around here there are home invasions, rapes, murders and what have you. Gangs are active and I'm sure glad that there is a police presence. When I was a kid we could spot an unmarked police car as easily as a patrol car. Those guys need all the resources they can get and many of them still are killed in the line of duty.

Originally Posted by gregs656

I wonder, how many people think criminals should have a fair shot at not getting caught.

That is, do we think the police should be allowed to walk around in plain clothes, drive unmarked cars, keep our fingerprints and DNA on record etc etc, just in case?

I dunno, it just does not seem quite right too me. No doubt it puts a lot of people behind bars, but to what end?

It is almost as if the people are policing them selves less because the police are everywhere.

Don't they have just as fair a shot of not getting caught as they have of getting caught? I know, they have a choice to, or to not commit a crime - that's about as fair a shot as it gets.

As far as plain clothes units, unmarked cars, fingerprints and DNA, I think only criminals need worry about those.