Corporal punishment in Singpaore is not delivered in public, certain classes of offender are exempt, and those offenses it is imposed for are completely unrelated to public levels of cleanliness.
From Wikipedia [1] ...
Singaporean law allows caning to be ordered for over 35 offences, including hostage-taking/kidnapping, robbery, gang robbery with murder, rioting, causing grievous hurt, drug abuse, vandalism, extortion, voyeurism, sexual abuse, molestation (outrage of modesty),[16] and unlawful possession of weapons. Caning is also a mandatory punishment for certain offences such as rape, drug trafficking, illegal moneylending,[17] and for foreigners who overstay by more than 90 days – a measure designed to deter illegal immigrants
Majority of the things you listed, for which caning is either allowed or mandatory in Singapore, would cover a crazily massive number of cases in NYC.
And I am not saying this as someone who is in favor of this happening. I am not at all in favor of caning laws (similar to Singapore or otherwise).
Just saying that the argument you make does not sound as convincing as you imagine it might to most people who live in NYC. It essentially feels like hearing "all those people having misconceptions about caning as a punishment for committing crime in Singapore being common. It only applies to some very specific crimes, such as <proceeds to list the types of crime that are a bulk of crimes that people in NYC experience>". By that metric, me walking past a double-digit number of people per day doing things, for which they could get punished with caning in Singapore, counts as rare.
The part of my comment you are referring to was me responding to the assertion "It seems to work! It's one of the cleanest places I've ever been to".
With the possible exception of 'vandalism', none of the offenses for which it may be applied [1] have any impact on visitors perception of cleanliness, that was my "argument" (although I don't think my comment merits the term).
> With the possible exception of 'vandalism', none of the offenses for which it may be applied [1] have any impact on visitors perception of cleanliness, that was my "argument" (although I don't think my comment merits the term).
Fair enough. Agreed, with the only exception being that I would also add drug abuse to the list.
Look, I am not some anti-drug puritan at all. But I would argue that people injecting in the middle of a busy street intersection are definitely gonna have an impact on visitors’ perception of cleanliness. Besides observing exactly this many times over the years I spent living in Seattle (as well as many adjacent scenarios, like the usual drugged out people attacking passerbys), it was also the first time I actually saw a dead body being carried away in a bodybag by EMTs/firemen. Saying that this won’t have effect on the visitors, but vandalism would, just feels wrong.
Corporal punishment in Singpaore is not delivered in public, certain classes of offender are exempt, and those offenses it is imposed for are completely unrelated to public levels of cleanliness.
From Wikipedia [1] ...
Singaporean law allows caning to be ordered for over 35 offences, including hostage-taking/kidnapping, robbery, gang robbery with murder, rioting, causing grievous hurt, drug abuse, vandalism, extortion, voyeurism, sexual abuse, molestation (outrage of modesty),[16] and unlawful possession of weapons. Caning is also a mandatory punishment for certain offences such as rape, drug trafficking, illegal moneylending,[17] and for foreigners who overstay by more than 90 days – a measure designed to deter illegal immigrants
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore