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Shocker: Sweden reduces murder rates 63% by focusing on arresting and punishing criminals
Our take: This is a result that only surprises those who lack common sense. Sweden was seeing an uptick in murder rates. Criminal organizations were recruiting kids under the age of 15 to join their groups and commit violent crimes because kids under 15 could not be prosecuted under Swedish law. Sweden lowered the age to 13 and began an aggressive surveillance and prevention campaign, which lowered the murder rates by 63% from 2022.
Dissenters claimed the policies were racist and illegal because many of the focus areas that police surveilled were heavily migrant-populated. These folks failed to recognize the police were simply going where crime rates were the highest.
This does not mean all migrants are criminals or murderers. It does mean that when you are trying to solve a problem, you try to get to the source of the problem. More than one thing can be true at the same time.
Fishing is a good analogy. If you are looking to catch fish, you go where the fish are. Fishing in your bathtub probably isn’t going to put dinner on the table that night.
COURTESY: MSN
Feds arrest 3 on charges of running a conspiracy to commit forced labor
Our take: 3 people have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit forced labor in a scheme involving victims in Michigan, Florida, Texas, and Missouri. The scheme involved running call centers that would solicit donations for the Kingdom of God Global Church. People in call centers were coerced into working long hours, many times with no pay. Failure to do so or to hit the goals they were given led to punishments such as sleep deprivation, physical violence, and withholding of food.
Two things spring to mind. First, the long hours with no pay and extreme punishments probably sound like a normal week in most Gen X’ers childhoods. The world used to be a different place, bro. Second, never underestimate how shitty people can treat other people when they think they can benefit from it. Let’s all be good to each other and not let greed and self-interest displace our basic human decency.
COURTESY: CBS
Remember the ICE agent who shot an illegal immigrant because he was attacked by the immigrant and 2 others? Yeah – not so much
Our take: More than one thing can be true at the same time. We can support the apprehension and removal of those in the country illegally while still demanding that our law enforcement officers follow the law, tell the truth, and not abuse the power with which they have been entrusted.
This case is a good example. The man in question is an illegal alien. As he was out delivering for DoorDash, he realized he was being followed. He drove home and tried to hide. The ICE agent tackled him. The man broke free and ran to his home to hide. At this point, the agent shot the man in the leg.
The story that was made public within hours of the incident was that the agent was attacked by the man while trying to apprehend him, and 2 others joined the attack on the agent, including using a shovel and a broomstick. The government claimed the agent shot the man while defending himself. It turns out the agent shot the man while under no threat of violence after the man had broken free from the agent and was inside his house. Then the agent lied about the situation.
Yikes. Let’s list out a few things that are wrong here that we think any sane person would acknowledge. First, people should not run from or physically fight with law enforcement. Period. If they catch you, they catch you. I don’t have any tolerance for bad behavior followed by worse behavior. Second, there is zero tolerance for life-threatening use of force unless a law enforcement officer is trying to defend themselves or the people around them.
We understand that situations evolve and change in seconds, and we need to give law enforcement officers wide latitude for the decisions they must make under pressure. This is not that. Third—when people in positions of authority lie to us, they need to swiftly and loudly be called out and held to account. You don’t get a free pass when you’re a leader; the bar gets higher, not lower. We need to demand that from those in leadership positions and hold them accountable to those standards.
COURTESY: KTVZ
Tip of the day – How to think critically
Tip of the day – How to think critically.
Deal with Your Egocentrism.
Egocentric thinking is found in the disposition in human nature to think with an automatic subconscious bias in favor of oneself. On a daily basis, you can begin to observe your egocentric thinking in action by contemplating questions like these: Under what circumstances do I think with a bias in favor of myself? Did I ever become irritable over small things? Did I do or say anything “irrational” to get my way? Did I try to impose my will upon others? Did I ever fail to speak my mind when I felt strongly about something, and then later feel resentment? Once you identify egocentric thinking in operation, you can then work to replace it with more rational thought through systematic self-reflection, thinking along the lines of: What would a rational person feel in this or that situation? What would a rational person do? How does that compare with what I want to do? (Hint: If you find that you continually conclude that a rational person would behave just as you behaved, you are probably engaging in self-deception.)
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“You can learn great things from your mistakes when you’re not busy denying them.” – John Spence