Jiro
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I love that!

That seems to be the basic problem pretty much everywhere. Politics sucks.

Also, jesus, did you get upset that I had more frontpage articles than you or something?

Hah, that's great. And tsk tsk, you almost-plagiarizer. So you were pretty brutal, eh? What was it about?

It was bed time for me, so I know the feeling.

Failed social policy is a huge problem, and one of the biggest parts of that is that we make too many criminals. The majority of criminals in today's world are created by these failed social policies that do far, far more harm than good. Laws against recreational drug use, prostitution, and all sorts of other fully consensual conduct. Somewhat unrelated, but I think history will show that the war on drugs is one of the biggest domestic atrocities committed by the Western world in the 20th and 21st centuries (hopefully it will be gone by the 22nd) and has killed or ruined millions of lives.

And yeah, it's easy to not be aware of this sort of thing, or only be aware at an intellectual level. But it happens with shocking regularity, even to completely innocent or at least undeserving people. I have no personal experience myself, but I've read and heard so much that I am outraged at it all. It's hard not to be once you're aware of all that happens.

A big problem is that District Attorneys are elected, and they don't get elected by people sane and reasonable people, but "tough on crime" ideologues. And that is terrible. Did the police have a warrant or whatever judicial order is the Australian equivalent? Was the dead body supposedly freshly made? And you may be right in your suspicions; using the police as a form of harassment is a disturbingly common tactic, especially as police become more and more prone to react with such unnecessarily violent force. It even has a name here, called SWATing.