Re: What the buck? NYPD finally nabs brute who attacked me two years ago, and DA Bragg asks for a lousy $1 bail

On Mon, 01 Sep 2025 20:20:17 -0700, "chine.bleu"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Governor Swill wrote:
>>> >Communisim doesn't work.
>> Of course it doesn't.
>
>Unless it does.

I recall something very wise being posted here many years ago.
"Communism only works when every member of the community knows every
other member of the Community."

>>> >Neither does extreme socialism.
>> Ditto.
>
>It would be real embarrassing if New York tried and it worked. It is 
>safer to prevent it.

Russia tried it.
Cuba tried it.
China tried it.
Vietnam tried it.
Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East Germany
and Hungary all tried it.

The operative word being "tried".

>>> >Replacing police with social workers is ludicrous.
>> But using qualified social counselors as an adjunct to police work is
>> a good idea.
>
>Police are often used as overpriced social workers. If a couple are 
>hitting each other, you need police to intervene. When they are calmed, 
>a trained social worker can take the time and education to help them try 
>to find a more peaceful way.

Bingo.  The police quiet the violence, the social worker works to
prevent it from happening again.

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