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[quote=Anonymous][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]

It’s actually the opposite.

Watch “the 13th” or read about the disaster of “3 strikes you are out”. Heavy policing has destroyed communities.[/quote]

Heavy policing reduces crime. “The 13th” and the “3 strikes” issue are about the impact of having too many black people in prison. I suppose there could be room for debate that people should not be put in prison for certain crimes. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have a strong police presence to catch people who commit the crimes, such as the murder that this thread is focused on. You’re conflating two separate issues: whether we should catch criminals (the answer is yes) and what we should do with them once caught (perhaps debatable for certain crimes, but in my opinion, not debatable for murder). [/quote]

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