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Shadow-Bolt posted...

The short version is the resources taken away from police forces are rolled into social services instead, who have a *much* better track record of reducing crime by, y'know, actually rehabilitating people so that they're not in situations where they feel like crime is a solution to their problems. Mental health counselling and decent paying job training can do wonders for a "high crime area"

EDIT: And for the criminals who are just absolutely menaces who cannot be helped? That's why you keep *some* police.

In a perfect world I would agree with this. I just dont see how social service workers are any kind of replacement for the kinds of situations police usually deal with. Has it ever been tried anywhere?