This week I have made the following posts on my other blogs:
- A
Brief Collection of Thoughts
Justice and predictive policing
The purpose of our justice system is not solely punishment: it is also about prevention - which has improved in recent years, but we are nowhere near as good on that as, say, Norway (although infinitely better than the USA). One important foundation in that is the premise that people can change for the better . . . The use by police of predictive policing directly attacks the principle of allowing for change for the better - no matter how good the stats are
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My (near) daily candles for: (1) peace, freedom, democracy, human rights, justice, social equity, and good governance, (2) those killed, harmed or affected by violent extremist attacks, atrocities or violence, and managing the risk of same, (3) those - human and animal - killed, harmed or affected by disasters including the climate crisis and the COVID-10 pandemic, and (4) those killed, harmed or affected by bushfires, are at:
- Saturday: peace/freedom/democracy/human rights, violence, disasters incl. climate crisis and COVID-19 pandemic, bushfires;
- Wednesday: peace/freedom/democracy/human rights, violence, disasters incl. climate crisis and COVID-19 pandemic;
- Tuesday: peace/freedom/democracy/human rights, violence, disasters incl. climate crisis and COVID-19 pandemic;
- Monday: peace/freedom/democracy/human rights, violence, disasters incl. climate crisis and COVID-19 pandemic, bushfires.
