Another insight into how BGs think

[herrwalther]

Cameras by themselves do very little to stop crime. If law enforcement is unwilling to use footage to their advantage then you might as well not have any cameras up at all. Crime deterrence is about consequences. If the consequence of an easy prosecutor victory with the aid of video evidence doesn't work, then something else is needed.

 

[Kleanbore]

...I rather often suspect that people looking to learn to defend themselves against "criminals" and "bad guys" nowadays have similarly created some vision of the prototypical "bad guy", sometimes out of whole cloth, or even cobbled together from what they've seen created by Hollywood screenwriters, or what they've imagined is the life story and mental state of mind of some suspect they're read about in the paper, or seen talked about on some news program.

That bears repeating.

Personally, I have no interest in the fruitless task of wondering "how BGs think".

 

[fastbolt]

Yeah, there's been times when someone has asked me how some stereotypical "bad guy" might think and react in some hypothetical situation. If I ask that person what they imagine a "feral" or "predatory" mindset to be, they look baffled.

If someone asks why criminals commit criminal acts, and you answer, "because they want to and they can", it seems to cause some confusion among folks who wouldn't think to intentionally commit a criminal act. Some folks in our society don't look at concepts like "deterrence" and "consequences" in quite the same way as other folks.

 

[fastbolt]

You know, I've been meaning to write what amounts to a short "article" on this topic, and I might take the opportunity to use my contributions to this thread as the foundation.

 

[old lady new shooter]

It's good that you are still guessing at the city, like you are in denial this just couldn't happen in any other NE city.

I don't know what the possibilities are. Stranger things have happened. But he's my brother and it's not my chance to take. I don't know why you are trying so hard to create a problem that doesn't need to be created.

Actually, I don't think of Baltimore as "north", although I'll give you and TM the "east" part.