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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 ar

When you say "parental control" and "thugs" those are dog whistles right there. We all know what you mean. Don't be obtuse. The solution is to support programs that help underserved communities (violence interrupters, addressing plice brutality, criminal justice reform), even if that should cost you a little more in taxes.[/quote]

I see you are picking away the choice of words, I don't see how it will change crime. In my books commiting repeated crime and being free on the street to do more is called a thug, someone who beats a family up for no apparent reason, robs people, etc is a thug. No matter the skin color. I am not profiling you are assuming that based on your assumptions.

I am all for supporting initiative to reduce crime but the solution is definitely not to decriminalized everything. As a 36 old women I can't comprehend beating someone up as a teen there will be consequences at my home and I knew it. I hate to leave in fear of these thugs and asking for safety is my right.

It's boggles me that right of the victim is never a concern it's the criminals the city wants to protect. [/quote]

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