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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real answer is that cops do not stop crime they never have and they never will. Cops apprehend and the court system punishes. Cops don’t even punish, that is the court system.

Social services do stop crimes, jobs, education, mental health support, community centers, churches, etc.

The things that stop crime have broken down and that is why crime is up.[/quote]

Decades of studies show you are wrong.  Mere police presence stops crime, and they don't even have to arrest people.  They just have to be there.

Ideally, we as a community would solve concentrated poverty, which is the real problem.  But we don't.

Secondarily, we as a community must have adequate responses to respond to people in crisis.   And someone holding a knife to their mom's throat or using a machete to carjack a car are community crises.    It creates neighborhoods of fear, and that pervasive fear is very damaging to the people who live there.  That alone contributes to our systemic disparities.   Pull police out and the two remaining solutions are vigilante justice (which we are seeing much more of) or military intervention.

Invest in communities and invest in good policing.   That's the only way to stop this. [/quote]

No there are no studies that show this. It’s your imagination.

Look at NW DC the police presence is low social services are high, crime low.[/quote]

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