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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone posted on Nextdoor that a woman was knocked to the ground and had her purse stolen at 11 am at the giant on ew highway. Nice to see silver spring continuing its descent into third world country status. [/quote]

DCUMers would say she should feel lucky they didn’t hurt her.  It is the price to pay to live in a vibrant city.  More police will only hurt the minorities.  [/quote]

“More police” won’t protect you. The guy who killed his pregnant girlfriend and the gas station check lived in a building where you can see the police station. That’s certainly “more police” than would be mustered to DTSS and yet it didn’t stop him from murdering his pregnant gf at home or the gas station clerk nearby. “More police” just makes (White) people feel safer when they are around Black and Brown people. No evidence that it keeps law-abiding people of color safer. [/quote]

The connection between police presence, and more intensive policing, and lower crime is one of the most well established in criminology. There is no question that proactive policing can and does reduce crime. We trashed policing in 2020 and saw an immediate 30% spike in murders.

Policing does come with costs to the communities policed. Maybe those costs are in your view too great so the effect on crime is not worth it. But don’t say that policing can’t reduce crime because it can.[/quote]

The ironic thing is that when the number of police gets reduced, communities of color are the ones that see crime increase most significantly, and so more and more black people die from violence by other black people (as shown on that “say every name” webpage where most of the deaths are not from law enforcement but instead from cold blooded criminals with guns). The black deaths that occur by black-on-black violence are way in excess of any deaths from improper police use of force. So while black people advocate for fewer police based on the erroneous notion that police are rampantly killing black people, more and more black people will die at the hands of other black people.

I remember during the height of the BLM protests during Covid, there was a mass shooting during an unannounced DC block party, with a few people getting killed, and on the news, the older DC residents asked, “why was there no police presence for this huge event?” Really? Just look at the protests against the police that were happening hours earlier. 
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