New Zealand. Aussie i think was much earlier
Not a single concerned conservative has shown that smash and grabs are the result of changes to bail and sentencing.
WuWei
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The discussion is not humans, it is government. How many times have progs claimed “you can’t compare a household checkbook to a government budget”?
Norway has a population of 5.3M, mostly the same culture.
The US has two cities and numerous counties with more people. And tons of different cultures.
You can probably run a city like Norway. Maybe even a county or with luck a small state.
You aren’t going to run a country of 330M people and 3.8M sq mi with central control like that.
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Camp
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Now it needs fixed properly.
WuWei
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By the way, the population of Venezuela is 6 times closer to the US than Norway’s is
Which socialism are we more likely to get?
Massachusetts has a larger, more diverse population than Norway.
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Your mono culture argument is no longer relevant?
WuWei
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Go spend a year in Venezuela and then I’ll answer your question.
Are there black Norwegians?
You first…
Probably. Haven’t looked into it.
WuWei
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Already done
Not citizens of Norway. Norwegians. And you don’t need to look into it, you already know.
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Not recently…
What is the point of this? Their aren’t any black native Americans either… well if I follow your line of thinking.
Smyrna
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Advocates claim there is no relationship between bail reform and increased crime (sound familiar)
. Police executives say the opposite.
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None of these links show the correlation between bail reform and crime that controls for other factors like high unemployment, covid related lockdowns etc.
For example high employment correlates with high crime (journal is paywalled but the synopsis is enough)
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/320275
“We find significantly positive effects of unemployment on property crime rates that are stable across model specifications. Our estimates suggest that a substantial portion of the decline in property crime rates during the 1990s is attributable to the decline in the unemployment rate. The evidence for violent crime is considerably weaker. However, a closer analysis of the violent crime of rape yields some evidence that the employment prospects of males are weakly related to state rape rates.“
Secondly…
It’s also been showed that harsher sentences do not deter crime…
“4. Increasing the severity of punishment does little to deter crime.
Laws and policies designed to deter crime by focusing mainly on increasing the severity of punishment are ineffective partly because criminals know little about the sanctions for specific crimes.
More severe punishments do not “chasten” individuals convicted of crimes, and prisons may exacerbate recidivism.
See “Understanding the Relationship Between Sentencing and Deterrence” for additional discussion on the severity of punishment.“
I could go on but I think you get the point
Smyrna
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…said the advocate the police in the posted article is referring to.

Did you read any of my links to studies?
e7alr
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Norway also generates 36.32% of it’s GDP from exports, while imports represent only 34.72% of their GDP. They only have about a 9 billion dollar a year trade imbalance.
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Samm
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And that post screams of this:
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Samm
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There are none so blind as those who will not see.
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