Timeline for How to have good public opinion of police in a dystopian dictatorship with low or no crime?
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| May 3, 2018 at 15:12 | comment | added | MissMonicaE | Everyone is poor and food is scarce but no one steals it? Vive la police! | |
| May 3, 2018 at 13:17 | comment | added | Flater |
@Raditz_35: You seem to argue that it's almost unavoidable that this species is naturally crime-free. (His species might be naturally crime-free. I don't even see another way.). I argue that a naturally crime-free species would effectively never have a need for "police", as that is what you need to combat crime. I don't quite see how I would have misunderstood. The second half of the comment argues that the police doesn't actually need to be the reason for low crime, as long as they are believed to be the reason, which would apply to a species that becomes crime-free at some point.
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| May 3, 2018 at 13:15 | comment | added | Raditz_35 | @Flater I don't think you understood my comment | |
| May 3, 2018 at 13:04 | comment | added | Flater | @Raditz_35: If they were naturally crime-free; then they wouldn't have a concept of "the police" to begin with. Even if the police weren't really the cause of the low crime rates, they can still claim they are and possibly be believed by society. Without wanting to open an entire topic about religion, there are people who feel that that's how religion is popular: It is believed to prevent something bad from happening without direct proof that something bad would happen if it wasn't there to save people from it. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 23:43 | comment | added | Draco18s no longer trusts SE | War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength! Long live [name of regime]! | |
| May 2, 2018 at 16:32 | comment | added | Raditz_35 | I thought about answering that but I didn't because it assumes the population has a point of reference. Since the society he has constructed is so alien already, i don't think that this is necessarily a good assumption. His species might be naturally crime-free. I don't even see another way. Not saying it's a bad answer because of that, just stating an issue with it the op should perhaps think about | |
| May 2, 2018 at 16:25 | history | answered | F1Krazy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |