Crime

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/nyregion/sir-robert-peels-nine-principles-of-policing.html : It is of fundamental importance to spread this principle: good police has to mean rate of crime zero or close to zero. Totally true!

Spy:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5rnroj_RxA https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marcia_Pinheiro4

It seems that (Wilson & Kelling 1982) prove that even though people feel safer with the foot patrol system, the results in practice, in terms of crime rate, are the same. A fundamental quote from their text is “ citizens complain to the police chief, but he explains that his department is low on personnel and that the courts do not punish petty or first-time offenders. To the residents, the police who arrive in squad cars are either ineffective or uncaring: to the police, the residents are animals who deserve each  other. The citizens may soon stop calling the police, because "they can't do anything.” That points at community policing being even worse, since the community then depends on the police, the police will be notified when something happens, and, according to the above extract, they don’t care. That is the feeling that I myself have since 2001: both in Brazil and in Australia the police does not care about what they should and does very little...

In response to another professor, I recently wrote the text below, which I think may help people think better in terms of crime deterrence. Another author wrote: “Social disorganisation theory has its history dating back to the early twentieth Century. It is based on the belief that crime and delinquency are associated with the absence or presence of communal institutions where communal institutions can refer to schools, churches or even local governments. In the theory, a community is considered organised when members belong or perform activities coordinated by central and representative figure within the community such as a local official or priest. By participating in these activities, communities create relationships between each other and consequently build a sense of communality. The latter serves to reinforce cohesion in society and curbs crimes or delinquency.”  (Article Nexus, 2018) Gangster (2016) talks about how caring is calling each gang member to check on thing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOwICfCI9wY  brings the story of a dog who got shot twice in the head by the owner. The rescuer then lets us know that it was a female dog who was simply trying to protect her own kids. They also say they tried to get the dog on the leash for 3 days in a row... What? Can you imagine professionals taking more than one hour to catch a dog in a yard? God...Can only be joking! The dog there, bleeding, all these hours... What? That cruel was just the owner...                                                         https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marcia_Pinheiro4

Her name: Frances Glessner Lee.  Area of her special contribution: Criminology What: Miniatures of crime scene, perfect pieces of art where all was perfectly described See:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hdT8PgT19w So, this is a woman who invested part of her fortune in Harvard, this sort of research.  Of course, nowadays it would be unreasonable not building computer 3D-models instead but those could still be based on her manual work. We actually start wondering why we would not collect history like this: Imagistically. That is definitely a way to preserve history to best.                       https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marcia_Pinheiro4

Prof. Michael Levi, Prof. Martin Innes, Prof. Peter Reuter, and Mr. Rajeev V.  Gundur   wrote a report called The Economic, Financial, & Social Impacts of Organised Crime in the European Union, a report from 2013, and the above extract came from this report. I observe that they are all men. I would think that freedom is priceless and even one second of our lives may make an extraordinary difference, like in that second we may press the button that destroys the asteroid that was going to hit earth and kill plenty and therefore we may be recorded in human history as heroes, with name and picture in academic books, just because we were alive and free to act. Besides, I reckon we should always assess losses for the individual from the perspective of the most important, useful and happy, since that means we will get more value for the losses, running the risk of overvaluing, but not undervaluing, them and gains from the opposite perspective, so that we are never unfa...