Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This was the classic rationale for cracking down on fare-beaters in the 1990s — you end up seizing a lot of illegal guns if you stop and search the people who are committing more minor infractions. — PolitiTweet.org

"It was the second time in two days that cops found a gun on someone trying to skirt the fare at the Stillwell Ave.… https://t.co/IQ4NPqk7wq

Posted Oct. 21, 2022 Deleted after 22 days Hibernated

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The key to ginning up outrage about something (“the way republicans would if it were democrats”) is that you need to actually do the object-level work of acting outraged about it rather than making second-order commentary about how it would play if the parties were reversed. — PolitiTweet.org

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@KennethBaer I think the official “broken windows” doctrine was something else — the idea that minor offenses literally caused accelerating deviant behavior. Might be true, but I think the “it’s good to find ways to catch people will illegal guns” theory is more clearly supported. — PolitiTweet.org

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