[a study paper is shown, with some of the text legible]
STUDY RESULTS
GIVING POOR PEOPLE MONEY REDUCES CRIME MORE THAN GIVING COPS THAT SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY
CONCLUSION
If you want to reduce crime, take care of your community’s primary needs instead of funding cops so much

[an orange character in a suit has stamped a paper labeled MORE POLICE FUNDING BILL, and is grinning]
Heh, you think we don’t know?

https://thebad.website/comic/scientific_policing

  • zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    9 hours ago

    almost always because they can’t work

    I think you should research a topic in Slovenia specifically more deeply. We had two very very specific reasons why this is different for Slovenia:

    • If you have a few kids social support in slovenia is comparable to minimal wage. In disadvantaged communities it becomes a real option, because they are not educated and with so many kids, families often live on a single minimal income. Would you work if you would get the same money if you did not?
    • Slovenian law did not allow for government to tske anything frlm people in social support. And they did not have pay fines. And with our prisons full, lots of crime was reduced to fines. So criminals in those communities were never punished.

    illegal work

    Legal work would take their social security away. And they would have to work full time for no extra money. Would you?

    In many countries, behind this kind of argument is a racist motivation. But in some cases this kind of assuming bad intent actually keeps disadvantaged communities isolated, poor and hostage to crime.

    I thought lemmy was a place of an actuall debate. And now I see how easy you all assume bad motivation… And allow yourself to put words like “dirty Gypsie” in my mounth.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      1·
      8 hours ago

      I think you should research a topic in Slovenia specifically more deeply.

      No, you should back up your assertions with data. Assuming what you’re saying is true, though, let’s try this:

      If you have a few kids social support in slovenia is comparable to minimal wage. […] Would you work if you would get the same money if you did not?

      Then the question becomes: Why is the money they’d get if they worked minimum wage? That’s your problem right there.

      And with our prisons full, lots of crime was reduced to fines. So criminals in those communities were never punished.

      Yeah that sounds like a problem. Nothing to do with social welfare though.

      And allow yourself to put words like “dirty Gypsie” in my mounth.

      I didn’t put them in your mouth; I put them in the mouth of wherever you’re getting your information. You seem to be well-meaning, but the stereotypes you’re parroting (which, again, show up everywhere, so this isn’t something unique about Slovenia) do come from the kind of people who would be mad at dirty Gypsies for stealing their tax money.