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The head of the FBI believes that a spike in violent crime in many cities may be due to officers' fears of showing up on Internet videos confronting suspects.
FBI Director James Comey told reporters Wednesday that a "viral video effect" is leading to less aggressive policing that "could well be at the heart" of an alarming increase in murders in many cities, according to an account recorded by the New York Times.
"There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime -- the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'Hey, what are you doing here?'" he told reporters.
Comey's remarks came after he was briefed on rising crime rates in more than 40 cities during the first quarter of 2016. The director did not reveal specific statistics, and the FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
James Comey, welcome to the panopticon you dragged the rest of us into. It's rather a double-edged sword, isn't it?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 13 2016, @04:49PM
Well, this may be an anecdote masquerading as a counter-argument, but look at how close one man was to being convicted of rape [mlive.com] because a lesbian decided to lie her ass off. Well, to be fair to her, all that she lied her ass off about was that she had been raped (claimed not to know who her rapist was since she just wanted to save face with her girlfriend--or possibly the Michigan womyn-born-womyn community, who knows). The police did the dutiful DNA legwork to locate the guy.
That is one lucky man that the detective he spoke to wasn't a white knight who holds the irrational and demonstrably false feminist belief that cisfemale hunnies never lie about rape.
Something else to think about: I could not find that story using Google. DuckDuckGo found it as the first hit. My search terms were "site:mlive.com rape accusation dna hotel wife" on both sites, just based on a vague recollection of some keywords that might narrow it down from every other time a man has been falsely accused of rape. Lizard people manipulating search engines so as to present a reality where it's unpossible that a cisfemale hunny could lie about rape or that there could be any harm done to liberty and justice by letting cops consult a huge database of DNA samples willy-nilly? Better not use search engines like Google that are controlled by the lizard people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 13 2016, @10:08PM
Google = feminist fucks.
Same reason they delisted 8chan.