Community Policing Cons

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1. I do not support the policy of community policing because patting down someone after they committed a minor offense such as jaywalking is wrong. The person simply wanting to get across the street, although illegally, and yet they are being treated like they are suddenly murderers or a danger to society. This would make a person feel like they engaged in much more than just a minor offense, and it is also extremely invasive. The police had no reason to believe the person was a threat to society simply by walking across the street to get to the other side. I’m also against it because I feel the police would not do this to every person who committed a minor offense, but they would most likely stereotype or racial profile, which is unlawful. They would choose who they believe would have drugs or weapons in their pockets, and stop those only.
2. The pros of building more criminals would be the reduction of criminals on the street and rather locked up. The more prisons would also cause a deter in crimes acted for the fear of being sentenced to prison. If people knew they would be locked away easily with a crime, it would cause less to act based on fear.
The cons would be the extreme cost to build them and the maintenance of them. They would need to find the money to build more, increasing our tax dollars, and the
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It’s a fact that most crime is done by males, but why exactly? There’s no fact that simply because a person is male they will commit a crime. This happens because of the influence of society and how they were raised, rather than their gender. Simply because the allowance of abortion and crime decreasing sounds merely like a coincidence. It doesn’t change the real factor at hand, as to why certain kids grow up to commit crimes. Other than the fact that with abortion, there is one less human on this Earth, there’s no real connection as to why crime decreased because of this

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