[a study paper is shown, with some of the text legible]
STUDY RESULTS
GIVING POOR PEOPLE MONEY REDUCES CRIME MORE THAN GIVING COPS THAT SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY
CONCLUSION
If you want to reduce crime, take care of your community’s primary needs instead of funding cops so much

[an orange character in a suit has stamped a paper labeled MORE POLICE FUNDING BILL, and is grinning]
Heh, you think we don’t know?

https://thebad.website/comic/scientific_policing

  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 days ago

    Hi

    I studied political and economic anthropology at university

    I eagerly await you telling me that I must have studied it wrong

    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Read David Graeber’s work, PhD anthropologist who wrote multiple books on this very subject, because his work expressly disagrees with those notions.