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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real answer is that cops do not stop crime they never have and they never will. Cops apprehend and the court system punishes. Cops don’t even punish, that is the court system.

Social services do stop crimes, jobs, education, mental health support, community centers, churches, etc.

The things that stop crime have broken down and that is why crime is up.[/quote]

Decades of studies show you are wrong.  Mere police presence stops crime, and they don't even have to arrest people.  They just have to be there.

Ideally, we as a community would solve concentrated poverty, which is the real problem.  But we don't.

Secondarily, we as a community must have adequate responses to respond to people in crisis.   And someone holding a knife to their mom's throat or using a machete to carjack a car are community crises.    It creates neighborhoods of fear, and that pervasive fear is very damaging to the people who live there.  That alone contributes to our systemic disparities.   Pull police out and the two remaining solutions are vigilante justice (which we are seeing much more of) or military intervention.

Invest in communities and invest in good policing.   That's the only way to stop this. [/quote]

I agree with you, however how do we invest in communities who don't want to.play their party i.e. be a good parent, responsible etc? Mist crime in DC is committed by young kids and if locking them up is not an option then how do we address the lack of parental support?  [/quote]

Your post is one long racist dog whistle. Why not try helping systemically oppressed communities for a change?[/quote]
Like what exactly? NP[/quote]

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