Actor Charlie Sheen regaled Club Random’s Bill Maher with an off-the-cuff idea for combating crime in big cities that stopped the host in his tracks.
“Ninety-percent of Twitter is from the 10 percent of people who use it,” Maher said during their hour-long chat. “Like, most of it is from the people who use it a lot. That’s their hobby.”
“It’s like crime!” Sheen exclaimed.
“Totally!” Maher agreed. “Like, in New York, they had some crazy stat — because, you know, they throw people in jail and then they’re out the next day. Like something — some crazy percentage of crimes, some side of crime, was like from 600 people who just over and over did like 80 percent of whatever.”
“That is just — wow,” Sheen said. “So, if you’re able to build statistics from that, you clearly know who the fuck the are, right? I mean, so, why aren’t — why not take just those 600 people and build a special place for them? Call it the 600 Building.”
“That’s good! That’s very good. The 600 Building,” Maher mused.
Maher continued, “And this is why Republicans get elected. Because Democrats run cities and they don’t do that. And it would be so easy to do that. But then there would be a certain part of their constituency that I guess wouldn’t like that. But everyone should like that. Yes, these are like career criminals. Call me crazy, I don’t think crime should be a career.”
“Or be allowed to become one,” Sheen added.
“A side gig, of course! Certainly, I mean, a hustle,” Maher quipped. “But a career criminal? And it is their career.”
President Donald Trump’s strategy for tackling crime in blue cities, at least, has been to send in the National Guard, as he has done in Los Angeles, Chicago, Memphis, Portland, and Washington, D.C.
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