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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know what’s causing the increase in crime, but I am skeptical that it’s as simple as policing policies. They didn’t have these policies before previous waves of crime.

I think it is just as likely that it’s about waves of particular drugs, or the delayed effect of economic conditions, or I don’t know what.

Was there a big drop in incarceration rates? I also feel like there has been a big shift in surveillance and other tools to prosecute crimes that had to have an impact. Cell phone records, etc.

The carjackings I think are about the changes in theft deterrence. Car thefts are harder to do so carjacking goes way up. That’s a problem but not caused by policing. [/quote]

It's progressive policies, layered decriminalizing a lot of gateway activities (fare jumping), layered with hands off policing policies, layered with DA policies, layered with sentencing policies (especially youth), layered with no actually rehabilitiation when people are in the lockup (mandatory to get a GED etc), layered with toothless supervision when you are out.

When car theft is a 'property crime', when gun charges get routinely pled down, when you are a youth until age 26 with revolving door status--why would you expect there to NOT be rampant crime? It's not one thing.[/quote]

Good summary. These problems are complex and interwoven and can't just be easily undone. It took decades to do all this damage, and will probably take decades to undue it. That's if its even possible, since many of the people who caused these problems are in denial that they are problems or that they contributed to them.[/quote]

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