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Originally Posted by Kevin
That works great in China. Used to (still does?) work well in Russia. Completely stopped all of their crime.
-- no wait.. it didn't.
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Did anyone say it would completely stop it?
And you may have actually made my point for me about Russia. Do you have the impression that crime is up or down under a less oppressive, or at least differently oppressive government?
ETA: actually this might be pretty hard to judge. But my impression is that criminal enterprise is up in Russia compared to when it was part of the USSR.
I'm not in favor of them, but I do think that completely oppressive governments have less street crime.
EATA: Actually, I have no idea. I had kind of forgotten about the large number of governments that manage to be that amazing combination of really oppressive and completely dysfunctional, unlike how I think of China and the former Soviet Union, which are/were oppressive and controlling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._homicide_rate
up to 1999
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...e_rate_to_1999
That presents a comparison between a Soviet total and a Russian total, but who knows what part of the Soviet total was based on the geographic area limited to Russia.