Running on Crime with Little Power to Solve It

[applegrove]

Running on Crime with Little Power to Solve It

November 5, 2022 at 4:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 68 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/11/05/running-on-crime-with-little-power-to-solve-it/

"SNIP......

New York Times: “Crime surges and falls for reasons that experts don’t fully understand, and it’s hard for even the most proven ideas to quickly reverse its direction.”

“But the people with ready levers to pull are not sitting in the Senate. And your current sense of order in your community is definitely not controlled by your congressman.”

......SNIP"

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. The standard answer is more cops. However, cops are purely after

The fact and do nothing to prevent crime. Primarily day to day they hunt for expired car registrations, roust houseless, and shoot your dog if you ever are unfortunate enough to get a visit from them for any reason.

[applegrove]

2. Don't agree. I am someone who gives a minority report on many issues. Someone

like me would be murdered for not following custom if there was no law and order. The leading cause of death after childhood disease was murder back when we all lived in villages of 150 people. I recommend the book 'Better Angel's of Our Nature' by Steven Pinker for more on how much safer we are from violent crime these days, and all around the world. That doesn't mean the police can stop all crime but they try.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. The cops don't prevent murder. They protect property.

Society relies on the bulk of the population to follow basic rules.on their own and they do.

[applegrove]

5. Oh they do. Try living somewhere where they is no rule of law and might makes right. Try living

in Haiti these days.

[lame54]

6. When they catch a murderer they...

Prevent potential future murders

[Deep State Witch]

4. Availability of guns

Is a big one. Not like the Repukes are going to do anything about that.