Field Marshall Bradley
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You can apply this to the entire nation. It definitely was more dangerous for kids and adults in the 70s, 80s, and 90s as opposed to 2024. It’s irrefutable.
10-year-old walks alone a mile away from Georgia home, leading to his mother's arrest
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You can apply this to the entire nation. It definitely was more dangerous for kids and adults in the 70s, 80s, and 90s as opposed to 2024. It’s irrefutable.
Field Marshall Bradley
Veteran
Nah. This ain’t true at all.
Pure Water
Veteran
Which is actually much more applicable to the story at hand here. This happened in Fannin County, GA. It's nothing to walk miles to get to places in towns/counties like that. The 24 hour news circuits plus social media got people paranoid.
It's also infinitely much easier to see where your child is and what they're doing in 2024 than it is in even the 2000s when I was growing up if you're wondering where they are.
Field Marshall Bradley
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Yeah. We air tag our kids in certain situations/environments. There are cameras and tech everywhere now. I’m old enough to remember the Atlanta child murders in real time. That shyt had the entire south on lockdown.
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Superstar
You saw the female cop that put the handcuffs on the mom. She need to walk herself 
duck
Bills Mafia
I used to walk further than that to school at that age thru blizzards n shyt
Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
They’d lock my whole family tf up. Me and my cousins were walking up and down open air drug dealing areas with drunks and basers everywhere.
daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
saxophone case, sixth gradeAt 10, I was walking over a mile home from school while carrying a large ass trumpet case and running from dogs.
Deep country living ain’t no joke.
daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
i miss when all i had to do was walkThread full of Lou Pickles "we used to walk 15 miles" babble.
I miss walking tho
daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
Kindergarten/First grade = went to school with my grandma, she was a secretary
Second grade = used the bus from the apartment but it was a mile to the front
third - sixth = more than a mile to school
seventh - eleventh = bussed to white schools when i didn't drive, more than a mile to the bus stop
twelfth = went to school out of district, couldn't get there no other way but to drive
OnlyOneBoss
Superstar
A mile isn’t even that far 
Me and my boys used to walk to our middle school every morning and it was like 2 miles from our neighborhood. We even went to McDonald’s and got breakfast. At like 11 years old
Me and my boys used to walk to our middle school every morning and it was like 2 miles from our neighborhood. We even went to McDonald’s and got breakfast. At like 11 years old
@bnew
Yea but I wholeheartedly believe Japan is safer than the US. Not that things don’t happen, but I’d probably feel safer raising a kid in Japanese society than here
As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do
As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do
There was just one fatal shooting in the whole of 2015
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There was just one fatal shooting in the whole of 2015
THE stake-out lasted a week, but it paid off in the end. The tireless police of Kagoshima, a sleepy city in the far south of the country, watched the unlocked car day and night. It was parked outside a supermarket, and contained a case of malt beer. Finally, a passing middle-aged man decided to help himself. Five policemen instantly pounced, nabbing one of the city’s few remaining law-breakers.
Japan’s cluttered streets are not always pretty but they are remarkably safe. Crime rates have been falling for 13 years. The murder rate of 0.3 per 100,000 people is among the lowest in the world; in America it is almost 4 (see chart). A single gun slaying was recorded for the whole of 2015. Even yakuza gangsters, once a potent criminal force, have been weakened by tougher laws and old age.
Yet, far from being pensioned off, the police are growing in numbers: beat cops, known colloquially as omawari-san (Mr Walk-around), are a fixture in most neighbourhoods. Japan has over 259,000 uniformed officers—15,000 more than a decade ago, when crime rates were far higher. The ratio of officers to population is very high, especially in Tokyo, home to the world’s biggest metropolitan police force—a quarter bigger than the one protecting New York.
This means plenty of attention for crimes that would be considered too petty to investigate elsewhere, such as the theft of a bicycle or the possession of a tiny amount of drugs. One woman describes how five officers crowded into her cramped apartment after she reported her knickers being swiped from a clothesline. A small army of detectives was assigned last year to apprehend a group of 22 people who had been growing marijuana for their personal use only and smoking it in deserted rural spots.
In fact, as the police run out of things to do, they are becoming more inventive about what constitutes a crime, says Kanako Takayama of Kyoto University. In one recent case, she says, they arrested a group of people who had shared the cost of renting a car, deeming the arrangement an illegal taxi. Some prefectures have begun prosecuting people who ride their bicycles through red lights.
In 2015 a man was arrested for scribbling Adolf Hitler moustaches onto posters of Shinzo Abe, the prime minister. Ms Takayama says detectives have started appearing without permission on university campuses, to monitor “troublesome” students. One reason why police are going after cyclists may be to make up for the steady fall in driving offences. (Both drivers and cyclists can avoid fines by signing up for remedial training at certified driving schools, which are often staffed by retired officers, notes Colin Jones of Doshisha University.) Fifteen years ago police in Hokkaido, in Japan’s sparsely populated north, conspired with yakuza gangsters to smuggle guns into the country so they could meet quotas for finding them.
The hunt for things to do may sometimes be beneficial. The number of reported cases of children being abused at home has almost doubled since 2010, despite the declining birth rate. That suggests the police are increasingly intervening in the domestic sphere, which they used to avoid.
Even critics of Japan’s justice system accept that it gets a lot right. Rates of recidivism are low and a great deal of effort is made to keep young offenders out of the prison system; police work with parents to keep young people on the straight and narrow. Adults are incarcerated at a far lower rate than in most rich countries: 45 per 100,000, compared with 146 in Britain and 666 in the United States.
Yet the police are oddly inefficient. Even though there are so many officers and so few crimes, they solve less than 30% of them. Confessions, often made under duress, form the basis of most criminal prosecutions. The courts dismissed the case of the beer thief in Kagoshima, despite all the work that went into it. Japan is almost crime-free not thanks to the police, says Yoshihiro Yasuda, a campaigning lawyer, but because people police themselves.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline "Petty officers"
ReturnOfJudah
Veteran
i use to walk atleast a mile home from the bus stop in middle school after thinking about it. But i wasn't one deep
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
Was there a sidewalk or just grass.
If he had been on a bike on sidewalk or grass would that have made a difference?
Not that it necessarily matters, except that a sidewalk is typically safer.
Definitely overkill on the arrest piece.
Someone thought they were doing good, but turned out they created cascading shiit...
She fighting not just for herself but other parents. I guarantee she gets funded.
Safety vs Common Sense Parenting.
Is 10 years old to young to walk on a road? 13? 16? On a neighborhood street? In the morning? During rush hour? and how far can they leave their house, 1 block? 5 blocks? Etc.
It's starts to get legally burdensome and arbitrary that's why she's not signing, because if he walks down neighborhood street alone again she might go to jail next time.
If he had been on a bike on sidewalk or grass would that have made a difference?
Not that it necessarily matters, except that a sidewalk is typically safer.
Definitely overkill on the arrest piece.
Someone thought they were doing good, but turned out they created cascading shiit...
She fighting not just for herself but other parents. I guarantee she gets funded.
Safety vs Common Sense Parenting.
Is 10 years old to young to walk on a road? 13? 16? On a neighborhood street? In the morning? During rush hour? and how far can they leave their house, 1 block? 5 blocks? Etc.
It's starts to get legally burdensome and arbitrary that's why she's not signing, because if he walks down neighborhood street alone again she might go to jail next time.
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daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
it was just me and my brother, we got jumped, well, he got jumped (mostly, someone jumped him and he didn't know how to fall), but that only happened because some neighborhood chick was looking at him because she didn't want to look at who she was walking with. We didn't hang with the heaux.
That and few other events is what sent us to the white school