law enforcement

5 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 4 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Ice Cube · across every show →

Everything said about law enforcement, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 negative
Opinion
Ice Cube: Cameras expose how US law enforcement preys on citizens
“Now you look up and people realize that it's a, it's, it is an epidemic because we have camera phones body cams, dash cams, all these things are letting people know the things that we've been knowing for hundreds of years in this country that You know, the law…”
Ice Cube Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:25 a16z Podcast | Straight Outta Compton, The Interview (including Ice Cube and Ben Horowitz)
Jan 2, 2019
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wittes: Unopenable encrypted phones will eventually spark a legislative crisis
“More and more and more phones are showing up in law enforcement un openable. And this is affecting more and more law enforcement agencies more and more often, and we're having no debate about it. And the problem with that is then one big thing will happen, and…”
Benjamin Wittes Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:42 a16z Podcast | The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
Dec 17, 2025 negative
Insight
Horowitz: Declining to enforce laws punishes victims without fixing prisons
“You can't, you're not going to solve the prison problem by not enforcing the law. Like, that's just, you just make the, you punish the victims on behalf of the criminals at that point, which is, I think that's a very dangerous thing for a society to do.”
Ben Horowitz Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 38:27 “How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
Dec 17, 2025 negative
Insight
Horowitz: Reducing police presence creates crime careers and avoids systemic solutions
“And so by reducing law enforcement, you create a crime career path, and it Kind of lets us avoid creating real career paths for people in that situation, and so it's a cascading effect of just badness.”
Ben Horowitz Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 12:05 “How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
Dec 17, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Horowitz: Reallocating police funds to social work has failed
“So you have to have, I'm not against social work, but you can't do it at the expense of crime, you know, law enforcement, and we saw that. I mean, like, we ran the experiment, it didn't work.”
Ben Horowitz Dec 17, 2025 ▶ 15:44 “How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
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