JRPGfan said:
SvennoJ said:
What could more police presence have done in this instance though?
Metal detectors at every entrance to make sure no knives get on a train?Â
If video surveillance everywhere is already no deterrent, what would a few cops on a train be? Even a cop in every car would not have been able to prevent this attack. It's all nothing but security theater.Â
For 'it' to be effective, mental unstable and prior convicted people would need to be flagged and tracked with AI surveillance, alerting police presence of their movements so they can closely watch/follow them around. Next to tracking everyone's social media to flag potential trouble to add to the watch list. Do you want to open that Pandora's box?Â
That's what's needed to make a police state actually work, assuming the enforcers don't go 'off the rails' themselves.Â
No you have to start at the source. Health care, education, rehabilitation. Correctional facilities need to actually be correctional, not just punitive.
Meanwhile there were some 1500 deaths by stabbing in 2024, Amtrak alone had 32.8 million passenger trips in 2024, 1.1 Billion subway rides in NY in 2023.
https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/how-rare-is-crime-on-the-subway
Regardless of one’s interpretation, for any individual ride on the subway, it’s extremely unlikely that a reported violent crime will occur. For the sake of comparison, consider the average risk of injury or death from a car accident in the U.S. In 2022, American drivers faced about a one-in-one-million risk of injury or death for every mile driven — roughly equal to the violent index crime risk from a single ride on the subway in 2023. And yet one is hard-pressed to find news articles about Americans who are hesitant to drive one mile for fear of injury or death. So why has there been such a focus on the subway system? Trains/Subways are still much safer than driving or being a passenger in a car. (or stage coaches back in the day of the founding fathers lol)
Another wise man once said, the only thing to fear is fear itself. (Roosevelt) Fear is the tool to let your freedom be taken away willingly. The solution is not more cops, the solution is fixing society. Social education so people interact with each other again instead of ignoring what's happening right next to them. People seem to be always afraid of each other nowadays, just as the elite like it.
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Or just keep them locked up forever.
If a person can get arrested for assault like 14 times and still walk the streets, something is very wrong.
That was over a periode of like 7 years or something right?
Yeah no... he should have served life time in jail, kept away from innocent people.
This guy is obviously too dangerous to allow to go about outsides.
Him seeing a councilor, or shrink, isn't going to do much of anything.... or getting that as a "punishment" for his crimes.
Its too soft, and wont have much of a effect.
Ei. I think this person is not someone able to see any benefit from rehabilitation.
Thus the only other solution is to just keep him locked away from others.
Trump is pushing for the death penalty.... something I'm not for (2 wrongs don't make a right).
However this person should probably be locked up for the rest of his life. |
He wasn't arrested for assault 14 times. He was arrested for various crimes including assault over a period of 18 years. Running through the crimes
-Simple Assault
-Disorderly Conducy
-Resisting a Police Officer
-Communicating Threats
-Driving 22 over the speed limit
-Shoplifting
-Failing to Show up in Court
-Larceny, Breaking and Entering (30 days jail time)
- Assault and Robbery with a dangerous weapon (5 years in prison)
Arrested 3 times with no charges filed. 1 of these is noted as an arrest for assault on a female.
-Misuse of 911
Only 3 actual instanes of assault, in 2007, 2014, and 2022 and 1 threat. Obviously he is a bad dude, but I'd hardly say 3 assaults is deserving of life in jail and don't make assumptions
