I would say the US has a shockingly massive crime problem.
[1] that you see many criminals, and that the US has a shockingly massive crime problem
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
(Submitted title was "FBI director's defense of mass incarceration".)
"Defense of mass incarceration" seems like a neutral summary of the content of the speech. The author's main point, from the content: 'to speak of “mass incarceration” I believe is confusing, and it distorts an important reality.' But the literal words "mass incarceration" seem simply factual, although "mass" might be more neutral as "large-scale."
Replacing this summary of the content with the author and location, as above, replaces it with an irrelevant, content-free title, which couldn't be better designed to go unread. How many HN posts are labeled "Article by Walter Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal?"
It seems better to simply describe the link as inappropriate. But many pieces on this subject appear on HN...
If you read this and feel strong emotional disagreement, one way to manage that emotion productively is to imagine yourself in the room with the speaker, and try to express your perspective in the way you'd find most likely to convince.
Another way to say that: the way to productively disagree is to talk to your opponent, not at your opponent.
Even if this were true, it wouldn't mean the blame lies with those holding the video cameras. If you, a police officer, are scared of being watched by those you police, of having your actions with those citizens recorded, maybe the way you approach your community needs to change.
This statement is demonstratively incorrect, given how the accused tend to be pushed hard from all directions to accept a plea deal and skip judge, jury and sentencing.
[1] is similar. A single handgun is believed to have been used in ten shootings in Seattle (and I think there have been more added to that number since then), so SPD were investing quite a lot of effort in trying to find the possessors of that one firearm.
0: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/555/t...
1: http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2015/07/16/police-looking-for-...
Each drug dealer, each mugger, each killer, and each felon with a gun had his own lawyer, his own case, his own time before judge and jury, his own sentencing, and, in many cases, an appeal or other post-sentencing review.
Then again, it's pretty common knowledge that public defenders are woefully understaffed, overworked, and underfunded.
The young men dying on street corners all across this country are not committing suicide or being shot by the cops. They are being killed, police chiefs tell me, by other young men with guns.
Except when, you know, we've got a lot of documentation where they very much are being shot by the cops. Pesky fact, that.
Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close “What are you guys doing on this corner at one o’clock in the morning?” policing
How much of this sort of policing happens nowadays? How much is cops intervening without throwing the book or calling in reinforcements?
Although we have come far as a nation, we still have weed-choked neighborhoods.
Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close “What are you guys doing on this corner at one o’clock in the morning?” policing.
NYCs stop and frisk was found to have zero correlation to crime outcomes.
