ACAB includes OP
ITT: OP wanting the cops to go after people doing illegal things, but only the illegal things that OP agrees with.
OP has no empathy and insists on being downvoted to hell rather than recognizing that they’re being a heartless hypocrite.
Addicts often commit other crimes, but the addiction is a function of the exposure to (and therefore trafficking of by other people) addictive substances. Cops actually love to hassle addicts, so long as they’re homeless addicts. It hasn’t solved any problems. But tackling drug trafficking is scary and dangerous because it turns out drugs are profitable and traffickers have loads of money and power.
Counterpoint: parents should be given tickets for endangering their child’s lives by giving them something that can cause death or greivous injury - calling it a “toy” that goes 30+ mph ridden on public roads with no training, license, or obeying traffic signs and signals.
One of these days it’s going to be a lawmakers kid that is going to get turned into a meat crayon. Then we might just get some reasonable legislation. I hate that it pretty much has to come down to many children dying for meaningful change to take place.
USA reports 11 deaths under 16 and Canada 10
So 21 deaths in what 15 or 20 years these have been around
Probably around 1 per year
How many kids have been killed by drug users or drug dealers… probably more than 1 per Year
USA alone has so many drug related shootings they probably can’t even reliably track how many kids get shot
Why would they give 12y old tickets? Don’t they have any newer ones?
They don’t update the forms often. Huge issue with the printer.
Cops “going after” drug addicts? Like giving them help and treating them like humans?
Drug problem is a healthcare issue, not a crime issue.
All research and successful drug policy shows that treatment should be increased And law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences
Harm reduction and rehab centers where they can use in a safe environment is how you really help people addicted to drugs. Instead of locking them in a cage and pretending they don’t exist.
Also isn’t giving tickets to 12 years olds on illegal motorcycles a form of harm reduction?
The question is when, not if, those device will separate their life into a before, and an after, the accident.
I wish.
I hate the police like everybody elese, but why huntig addicts? They do nothing except to themself… But a 12yo on a scooter is mostly dangerous.
Addicts will steal your shit to pay for their drugs
OP, did a cop give you a ticket for riding a scooter?
No they gave a 12 yr old a ticket… Well actually hey gave it to his father
Maybe they shouldn’t have been doing something illegal. 🤔
Maybe unjust laws shouldn’t be obeyed
If only you had the brain capacity to notice your own hypocrisy…
Lol I am shocked. Yall believe he is for real? Guy is troll
first good point you’ve made anywhere in your own post’s comments.
Exactly. Not sure you’ll put 2 and two together, tho.
Tell that to the kid in my city who got run over by a semi truck a couple of weeks ago or the dozens per week who are admitted to the ER with scooter and ebike injuries.
There is no justice in punishing people who’ve become addicted, and are just using to satisfy the addiction.
You know who becomes addicted? The kid who runs/drives/rides in front of a car and ends up on major pain meds. Maybe ticketing parents who let their kids do that, without regard for the evidence of its dangers is a good idea after all.
Well, sorry they gave your dad a ticket
Love the username.
We are Alpharius
So … your classmate?
So they did something good for once: traffic education.
in this case the police are correct
Leave the drug addicts alone!
Also legalize it man. By it I mean pretty much everything. Yowza daddy-o.
You get people off drugs by building a society where people aren’t being oppressed and used as slaves. Not by putting them in jail and making their life worse.
Kids on the other hand aren’t fully mature and don’t realize that ‘just’ 30mph on a scooter can lead to a deadly crash pretty easily
Teach the kids to use a scooter properly, all across asia children ride electrics without incident, but I am constantly hearing how dangerous they are back in America where barely anyone rides scooters.
Is that how Singapore got rid of their drug problems?
Yeah, when I think Singapore, I think utopia with no inequality or social pressures. The only thing bad is those pesky druggies that do simply because they’re bad people and want to do the bad drugs.
There are no drugs in bar sing se obviously.
Probably by caning them to death when they spit their gum on the ground.
There are no drugs in bar sing se obviously.
