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Subject:	Re: Tony Martin case: You can't {make up} better criticism of Liberals!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:22:49 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli wrote:

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Its right up there with the myth that police actually prevent crime rather than the reality of the fact that they simply investigating after the fact 99.99 percent of the time.

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-Mike Petrucelli

How about having the police services *deter* people from committing crimes in the first place. Its very hard to know when and where a person who is set out to commit a crime in order to stop said person from actually committing it, but I would imagine that there is less crime in our respective countries because there are constables on patrol.(1)

Dave K

1- it’s jst conjecture, I know, but I don’t think it can be proven wrong.

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		Re: Tony Martin case: You can't {make up} better criticism of Liberals!
(...) Basically what you are arguing for is an increase in law enforcement personnel, which is fine (although adding to the tax burden), but in the end I don't think it will decrease the crime rate that much, although significantly drive pastry (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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		Re: Tony Martin case: You can't {make up} better criticism of Liberals!
(...) (URL) (...) Its right up there with the myth that police actually prevent crime rather than the reality of the fact that they simply investigating after the fact 99.99 percent of the time. (...) -Mike Petrucelli (21 years ago, 25-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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