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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]

You're right - it is a big mix of factors.  We've seen crime decrease when we've reduced housing insecurity.  We've seen crime down when we reduce poverty.  However we're not doing those two things right now.  During the pandemic, the District did an experiment with giving some poor families a stipend and studying crime and health effects.  The cash transfers greatly reduced housing insecurity, created less anxiety at home, and seemed to reduce crime, too.  We know what works, but god forbid we give money to poor people.

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Right now my taxes are giving poor people nicer apartments in Upper NW than I live in with a full time job.  So why isn’t crime going down?  [/quote]

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