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You might try reading the most recent Atlantic article that showed tough on crime policing worked.

I guess there is a study for everything though. And now because we’re see sawing to the other side of criminal prosecution, where is hugs and restorative justice and no one will go to jail or face accountability for violent crime, I guess we get to find out in another 10 years how that affected crime when another study comes out. And if dc goes back to being a crime ridden cesspool like the Barry years well I guess the woke folks will have been right all along. I’m pretty sure though, based on the increase in teen violence and car jackings that they’re wrong.[/quote]

This one?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/is-americas-great-crime-decline-over/618381/

Where the guy says:

"[i]In my book I argued that the drop in violence had all these benefits, but it was unsustainable. And it was unsustainable because we were reliant on a model of responding to violence and urban inequality through brute force and punishment and dependence on prisons and the police to respond to every challenge that arises when poverty is concentrated.

As long as that model is still in place, you can produce lower levels of violence. But you will also produce staggering levels of harm. That harm became very visible in the last five years and, in particular, after [the killing of] George Floyd[/i]."

If you think that's an endorsement of the 1980s "tough-on-crime" policing, I don't know what to say.[/quote]

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