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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do we turn it around. Is it just more police, more arrests, more prosecutions? I'm on board for all of those, by they way. If someone says "violence interruptors" to me, I'll scream.

But I'd love to know in a practical sense how we address this. It's not acceptable. I get there are multiple factors playing into this (homelessness, mental health issues, and substance abuse are all major ones from where I sit). What specifically did DC do last time to make it so much better? What do other cities do?

To me the biggest issues seems to be the apathy of people in positions of power about the problems we face. People have been excusing the violence for years now and arguing it's "not that bad" or that virtually any enforcement mechanism is racist. Well, we somehow managed to reduce violence by a lot in the last two decades, so what did it? And what changed? And how do we get back on track? If we've done it before, we can do it again.[/quote]

We know the solution to reduce crime.  It is now derogated as “mass incarceration” and policy makers in DC and many other jurisdictions view it as worse than tolerating the increased crime that necessarily results from “decarceration”.  It’s not an unprincipled position, but it’s one that few would support if it were acknowledge forthrightly, so we get lies and gaslighting instead.  But the government knows how to reduce crime; it just doesn’t want to.  [/quote]

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