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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
17 Jun 2020 Conversations with Tyler Rachel Harmon on Policing
“Sure, I think that should be legal. But people who steal things — I would arrest all of them whom I could catch without hesitation.”
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- Speaker
- Tyler Cowen
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 17 Jun 2020
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
- Episode
- Rachel Harmon on Policing
Transcript context
…I don’t think that gets us public safety. You look at the numbers of arrests that we dropped in New York just by not arresting people for simple possession of marijuana, and you see that’s a lot of harm reduced and no additional public safety risk, or almost none. Sure, I think that should be legal. But people who steal things — I would arrest all of them whom I could catch without hesitation. Why wouldn’t you charge them and ask them to show up in court?…
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